Hammed Kayode Alabi
@iamkayfactor
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Social Entrepreneur| Board Member @peacefirstorg| TedX Speaker| 3x Author| Poet| Alumnus @EdinburghUni @africanstudies @Mcfscholarsed|Founder @klci_initiative
London, England
Joined June 2011
The story you may still not find in the news. I hope it inspires someone not to give up. I was raised and born in Makoko .I lost my Mum at 7 .We moved to Bariga at 12, another slum in Lagos.My dad lost everything at 12, sold his property, and a couple of stuff.I hawked sweet
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The letter to my Mother . Dear Mother,. I hope today you will look down on me with great pride and you will be proud of what I am becoming. I know you left when I was 7 and you had a great dream for me. You imagined me having a great education, wearing the best dress, and
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One of the ways to communicate or diversify your messages is through videos. I started recording videos because there were some of my thoughts that needed a bit of deconstruction and explanation. Whilst text is great, writing them down helps you make sense and think through your
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One of the things that has settled with me is the ability to separate myself from my rejections. Though rejections still remain painful and I would always recommend that you talk it through someone you can trust but it doesn't get to me anymore and I will tell you why. I
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It is about 1:00 a.m. 7th July 2025 (from the past), and you might wonder why I am writing this message at this time. It is because I couldn't sleep and I was thinking about the complications of the world. From wars, to AI wave, to start-ups crumbling, and to agenda setting to
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I think if you are scared of errors in your text on social media, even though I think a little bit of it makes you human. You now have tools like Grammarly that can allow you to edit your social media posts or you can use ChatGPT to edit your content. I do not use it because I
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I think as I continue to speak with some young people and even some older ones, I am noticing that people have been dealt a bad hand. People have met people, so-called mentors, or people they admire, who have talked down on their dreams because they feel insecure or lack nuance
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I think one of the things that scares people from doing things or writing, or sharing on social media is the error or mistake they might make. From my journey, I have noticed that most people would not be fixated on the errors but on the message. I am even thinking that those
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Motivation Monday: . This was me in 2018 fighting for my life and pitching to win a 100,000 Naira grant. I did not win the money but today, I have provided x 10 of the same amount to young people working to drive educational change in under-served communities in Nigeria. Donated
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Around 2016/2017 I will go on YouTube and watch videos of incredible and inspiring people who gave a speech at their honorary conferment at top and world-class Universities. From @ChimamandaReal to @BarackObama , to @OfficiaIDenzeI to @Oprah to late Chadwick Boseman, and many
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Someone just reposted this tweet that went viral in 2023 and since then I have moved back to Edinburgh to work for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program there, the same scholarship I got. Recently won the Being Edinburgh Alumni Award and was conferred in the Summer.
Many have said this and I will repeat. “Education” I was born and raised in Makoko. Lived in Bariga and studied Human Kinetics at the University of Ilorin where I graduated top of my class. Founded an NGO, got the MasterCard Foundation Scholarship in Edinburgh, and work in London.
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I never want to be the writer who inspires through fear. When I started writing and sharing my thought process. I started observing the traces of people who share on social media and the traction they get. I noticed that the message laced with fear goes viral but I do not
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RT @taadelodun: They say never meet your heroes, but I just did. And it ignited something even deeper. I have watched so many of his video….
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6. Do not rush to submit. It's not a sprint and nobody is awarding first to submit. Take your time and review until you feel you are confident to go. 7. Ensure every word in your essay count. Don't let sad stories dominate your essay that you forget to focus on how the story has.
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Winston Churchill once said that “Success is moving from failure to failure without losing your sense of enthusiasm” . I have seen many people share their scholarship rejection news and I know how it feels to be rejected. It's always a painful moment but I hope you find hope in
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Finally got the full news, thank you Alabi Saheed Alani for digging and finding it. It is still day one. Caption: Watch the full feature via the link below from 2:21 to 3:07.
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