Not-So-New Novel

Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

Cheluchi is my cousin and a dear friend. Her newish novel, written 2 years ago, has been named among 3 books for a $100,000 prize! I am so proud of her!

And I haven’t even read the book. It’s now for sale in the US so I’ll get it today or tomorrow. Writing about the book gives it a special appeal!

Tech Education for Africans

Nigerian Ustacky is teaching Africans how to do relevant industry skills. Ustacky will also teach young people how to manage success at an affordable price.

This will make them job-ready. The program, launched in 2019,  delivers training in programming. It uses its website and mobile app. Both methods deliver high-quality video courses offered by  excellent instructors.

The two instructors have been interested in doing this for 10 years! Finally two years ago they hit upon this method of making access to tech education easy.

We started doing things that would eventually lead to Ustacky over a decade ago. We have organised physical training programmes, created online courses with thousands of students, and mentored students, among other things (Nigerian spelling).

After trying several methods, both online and offline, the pair discovered there was no platform to make tech education easy! So they set out on their own.

I’ll Be Practicing!

I’m getting a new piano! It’s a digital affair, 88 keys. It is like the one Kenechi has. Beth, my daughter, told me to get this; she said, “No substitutions!” She is sure I will take up the piano again. She doesn’t expect it to be easy, but believes I have the impetus to try!

I used to play regularly. But I have barely touched a piano in many years!

So I will be practicing, starting tomorrow. Therefore I will not send my blog for the meantime. Maybe it will be for a long time.

But don’t forget me! I may tune in briefly for a quick notice in between practices.