I left Tunbridge Wells yesterday before dawn broke, a clear sky with a full moon shining between the trees as I drove through the countryside to the airport – an auspicious start to my day. It was the first time I would be meeting up with Quincy and Janet since they arrived in Edinburgh last […]
A note from Helen
It struck me recently that many of our followers on social media grab snippets about the work that we do, get to see some beautiful photos and hear from our students. But they rarely hear from me. When I meet people, they first ask what I do, then they want to know why does a […]
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QUINCY Quincy has been an Our Moon scholar since 2016. She graduated last August from our programme. Quincy’s father died when she was very young. There is no safety net in Zambia – no benefits system and few jobs for people like Quincy’s mother who only had a little schooling and few skills. Some of her mother’s […]
The Pleasures of Writing a Novel
Our scholar Zoe has written his first novel. In this intimate blog, Zoe writes about the emotional impact that writing has had on him, and shares his novel. You can see from the blog, that he is a novelist in the making. There are many joys involved in writing a novel. There is the inherent […]
Leadership and Ethics: The Ideal African Leader
Thomas, one of our scholars, has written a great piece on his time at Yale Young African Scholars summer programme in Rwanda and what he learnt about leadership. The lesson that different leadership styles need to be adopted in different situations is surely one that many leaders today, both in Africa and the west, could […]
Tony’s Experience of Ashesi University
Justin recently caught up with Tony, one of Our Moon’s first students at Hillcrest, to hear about his first year at Ashesi University. When I got to Ashesi I thought I wouldn’t get to interact with many people, the lecturers especially. I thought it would be very formal, but after a week or so I […]