Manduwi N. ๐๐
@NthandaManduwi
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โ๐ฝ ๐๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ฟโข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟโข๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ | ๐๏ธ: @LessonsCon ๐ผ: @Q2Corpโข@NthaFoundation | ๐ https://t.co/Al6K68xDrK Affiliations~MSFT(Xbox)โขUNโขEUโขWBGโขMRA
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Joined July 2012
Took a redeye flight from #NYC to #Lansing, just so I could make it in time to judge #2DayVenture with the @MSUBurgess Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. #worthit ๐ฉต
Had such a GOOD DAY at #2DayVenture yesterday. My first streak of mentorship with @MSUburgess (mentored 6 teams in one morning), and enjoyed every moment. Palpable brilliance. Excellent innovations (ideas). ๐คโจ
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(some of) my facebook followers are absolutely displeased that I posted a thigh on my timeline. Ah. They should have known me in my youth. We would have all been ranting for 600 days and nights. (Sidenote really enjoy that I can just delete FB comments and proceed about my day.)
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Thereโs โOMG I love your boots!โ Weather outside! ๐๐
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I actually admire writers who say they center the audience when they write. I couldnโt care less about the reader (I say this with any due love and respect) in my writing process. I am fully obsessed with the story when I write. This is strictly about the characters in this
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I donโt know how the storytellers before us did itโwriting purely from memory, and maintaining detail in the best ways possible. I find writing incredibly easy. I have 23,398 photos of New York City. Each frameโฆ a memory that takes me to a point in time. I remain untasked to
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She was quite deeply broken when I boarded that flight to New York. As was I. I still remember the airport staff calling me to go back after her. โYour mom is crying. Please go say byeโ. It was the last time I would get to seeโฆ and hug her. She gave the greatest hugs.
The bittersweet thing with chronic illness is that you do get to give people their love while theyโre still here. You get to grieve them while they are still living. And when theyโre gone, youโve gone through most of the stages of grief - left just a shell of yourselves.
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Just before I left Malawi to head to my mission with the @UN in New York in 2022, I took my ma to Blue Zebra Island for her birthday. I think in a way we all kinda knew this was the last one we would get with her. She was very sickโwe had to tell the lodge to keep an emergency
I got to love my mother so desperately because I was always ready for the worst. What a strange thing to be grateful for - the opportunity to love someone like youโre gonna lose them.
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There are so many words. I hope I get to do them justice. Happy Motherโs Day โ Lady at the Helm ๐ฉ๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐ฉต https://t.co/4T46QffSsu
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For as long as I can remember, I have lived in the light of a name larger than my own. My mother, Captain Lonnie Kalua-Manduwi, was the first female marine captain in Malawi โ a woman whose brillia...
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This motherโs day finds me (still) writing about โMake Nthaโ.
Before she passed on, I promised my ma that I would write about her life. She was a private person (most people in my family are). I certainly did not see myself writing this without her, and I hope I do it every inch of justice. Cape Town was her favorite city, so here we are.
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Meet Tamanda Namangaleโdaughter of the Deputy Permanent Representative of Malawi to the @UN. Her father, a great mentor of mine. She, a great babysis of mine. Check out her spoken word piece at @TEDTalks x @BatesCollege โฅ๏ธโญ๏ธ
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At this yearโs TEDxBates College event themed โThe Unasked Questions,โ Malawian storyteller and youth leader Tamanda Namangale took the stage with a performance that reminded us of the power of words...
At this yearโsย @TEDxBates_Collegeย event themed โThe Unasked Questionsโ, Malawian storyteller and youth leader Tamanda Namangale took the stage with a performance that reminded us of the power of words to heal, build, and transform communities.
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Until you are able to (1) Laud systems that harmed you, and (2) Criticize institutions that benefit(ed) you; you have not (yet) intellectually matured.
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What a beautiful way to start my day ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ.
๐โฌ๏ธ Here is something you can meaningfully waste your time on. Learn how the @WorldBank and @FAO are supporting entrepreneurs in the energy sector in a country near you. Start a bankable business sometime? ๐ซถ๐ฝ๐ฉต
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My mind is on European scholarships, and the coloniality of knowledge today. Enjoy (and feel free to correct me, if you disagree):
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In every corner of the continent, you will meet them: some of the brightest minds of their generation, armed with prestigious degrees from world-class European universities, fluent in the language of...
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For all my brilliance, I cannot believe I will go down in history as a decolonial scholar. Itโs looking darker and darker by the day. And I somehow feel it in me that I owe this to Africa. That it is why I exist at this precise point in time.
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๐โฌ๏ธ Here is something you can meaningfully waste your time on. Learn how the @WorldBank and @FAO are supporting entrepreneurs in the energy sector in a country near you. Start a bankable business sometime? ๐ซถ๐ฝ๐ฉต
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Also you guys have so much fight in you for useless things lol
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The chatter on the timeline just reminded me of the first time I received a cheque in the US (it was actually a refund from @MichiganStateU for my preview day trip โ when they had invited me to check the school out). I told my friend I was going to the bank to cash a cheque, and
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At this yearโsย @TEDxBates_Collegeย event themed โThe Unasked Questionsโ, Malawian storyteller and youth leader Tamanda Namangale took the stage with a performance that reminded us of the power of words to heal, build, and transform communities.
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Two rollover: 4. International Management 5. Complex Negotiations & Dispute resolution I have enjoyed this MBA. Everything I am learning is quite relevant and deeply applicable to what I am building with my businesses. Immediate use-cases; very exciting. https://t.co/eRpX0cPXnj
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As I write this, Iโm midway through the third of four semesters in my MBA journey โ a moment that invites both gratitude and introspection. On paper, Iโve completed more than 80% of the program. In...
Readโฆ any and everything. A paper, a journal, a news article, a book. Just read. ๐ฉต๐ค
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I am probably the most excited about my course-selection, and really glad I chose the marketing concentration. My new course this second half of the semester are: 1. Global Marketing 2. New Product Development & Portfolio 3. Business Development & Sales Management
If you are reading this, it means that I am half-way through semester 3/4 of the MBA, and about 80% done with my total MBA coursework. It also means I am not (actively) recruiting for fulltime roles, and fully focused on building my company: @Q2Corp, and by extension
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If you are reading this, it means that I am half-way through semester 3/4 of the MBA, and about 80% done with my total MBA coursework. It also means I am not (actively) recruiting for fulltime roles, and fully focused on building my company: @Q2Corp, and by extension
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