INSPIRATION____________________________________________________________________
How did you handle the challenges given to you?
I’d like to think of life as a challenge in general but
keeping the faith in Allah, knowing that He always has a
plan for us and that ours is to try to hold it together
definitely gets me through every challenge. I do this by
surrounding myself with the people I feel most
comfortable with - those being my close friends and
family. But also keeping in mind that sometimes you are
the person that has to carry out the challenging task so
that the next person doesn’t have to. A legacy of some
sort.
What was the greatest lesson you have taken
from the competition?
The grass-root societal issues that we still face as a
country and that those are the daily lived challenges
many in the country. Also, that life will not always be
in your favour but you have to keep strong and be
compassionate – and that is what most of people we
interviewed emerced us into – compassion.
What are your future plans
Championing my vision of social justice through
education and seeing it unfold – leaving that legacy.
Starting up my own foundation and NPO and going
into the business world maybe.
Greater ambitions would be that I’d love to also form
part of Institutions like the African Union (AU) and UN
to give my contributions to the African continent as
Africa is a priority to me. Getting that PhD at some
point in my life InshaAllah
If you could only possess one super power what
would it be and why?
This is a tough one… I’d go for the whole “Warrior
princess, save the world” thing but Time-travelling
should be it. It would allow me to go back in time to
being that little kid – because really this adulating thing is
hard!
What book is on your bedside table
The Final push by Freddy Pilusa and Steve Biko’s “I write
what I like”
Photography by Abdur Razzaak Lambat
@photo_phactori