July 14, 2019
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Tennis Fan? Clem and I love watching tennis matches, he even more than I. His hero is Roger Federer, who is playing in the finals at Wimbledon today. The match is already over but I don’t want to know the … Continue reading
April 21, 2019
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Powerful Nigerian Women: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe I just saw a LinkedIn post from Cheluchi, my cousin-in-law, a health law and policy consultant, who had a recent challenge. She said, “I speak at all kinds of events, but I recently got a … Continue reading
March 28, 2019
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Nigerian Success at Special Olympics https://sportsration.com/2019/03/23/breakdown-of-how-team-nigeria-won-64-medals-at-the-special-olympics-in-dubai/?fbclid=IwAR1lX8XFL-nC6wcQodt5jdqUCSEhVzcbXkc803vSl_n8OeQOM_OFPng9ADw I wrote last time about my friend Joanne’s student Tayei who won a gold medal in the 25-meter race at the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi. Yesterday Joanne posted the photo of the Nigerians … Continue reading
March 12, 2019
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Martin Luther King Celebration in Westport CT Westport belatedly held its MLK celebration on March 10. Snow had caused a postponement from the original January date. We were fortunate that the keynote speaker Professor James Forman and the other presenters … Continue reading
February 24, 2019
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Nigerian Election Still Underway I followed Nigerian election results on Twitter last night, right before going to bed. President Buhari’s wife Aisha was the first to vote in their polling unit, and the president was second. According to the Nigerian … Continue reading
January 23, 2019
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop After a year off, Chimamanda Adichie’s creative writing workshop returned in 2018. This year it was sponsored by Trace Nigeria. You may recall reading about Trace. It is our younger son Sam’s company in … Continue reading
November 16, 2018
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Hate on Display Whoopi Goldberg, Trevor Noah And “06880”: The Sequel I often quote Dan Woog’s blog, “06880.” He writes about Westport (our zip code is 06880) and events or people with connections to the town. On Saturday evening he … Continue reading
October 23, 2018
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Peace Building Needs Women Women are not participating in sufficient numbers in peace-building work. This is not a surprise. UN Women made this point well in a recent report. They shared an infographic to demonstrate how few women have been involved … Continue reading
July 27, 2018
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Empowering Women and Girls in Nigeria’s Adamawa State An article about Jamila Babuba, a female candidate for office in Nigeria’s Adamawa State, led me on a search about the UN program empowering women and girls. I read about her in … Continue reading
July 3, 2018
by Catherine Onyemelukwe
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Justice Denied, Then Restored In 1848, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a free Black woman, wrote to Frederick Douglass to say the abolitionists were talking too much. She wanted action, not talk! Douglass had, “asked readers of his North Star newspaper … Continue reading