TheGoodFelo

Gratitude, Strength and Beauty: My Journey to Recovery. Human strength and beauty lies within, and are all enforced by gratitude and the people around. It’s a beautiful lesson I learnt from eight chemotherapy sessions and two surgeries over the course of one year. The school year had just ended and I was finally home with my parents after three months of intense academic activity in boarding school. As I lay on the sofa, loss in thought anticipating the beautiful holiday, my mum slowly reached out to me calling my attention to a small mass she observed protruding on my right abdominal region. Although, I had observed the mass before I never seemed to be bothered, “I feel no pain there”, I told my mum. Unknown to me my mum pondered about it all through the night and called in for a doctor’s appointment.  At the hospital we ordered for a scan, and on interpreting the scan results the doctors recommended surgery to take out the mass on the thought it was just a benign tumor. Surgery was q

Read-Worthy If your story gracefully finds a page to nestle in our 2021 Anthology: The Sound Of Our Own Voices, it basically means 3 things: One, your story is not watery, salty, bitter, or sour! We tag our stories "Read-Worthy" simply because they are the kinds that are worthy of being read. This directly implies that they are not a waste of time. We will only publish stories that are worth reading at all. There seem to be too many writers, but too few storytellers. Another point is that your fingers are amazing! Whoever taught you how to write is a good manicurist. You made us smile, laugh, sad, or wide-eyed engrossed. Keep the good work, GoodFelo. Did you read our mission and vision clarification? We guess. We thought that, if we'll be showcasing African Young Writers to the world, we had to go with writers who could steal the show on our global scene. Writers like you! We noticed that a lot of people have been asking what Read-Worthy means. "Read-Worthy" is

A nation without children will lose its wealthy heritage to foreigners. A nation without men and women of integrity will breed children as pests to the society -repugnant ones like mosquitoes, who cannot but offend and disgust others. A nation without competent teachers will sadly stand still; becoming even more stagnant than a mountain in a virgin forest, and no disaster will reshape its structure. A nation without education will go back in time to wallow in the past that everyone has left behind. It will reverse so shamefully like a full-grown, able-bodied man being nursed from his mother's bosom in public. The value of education can only be underestimated by an unlearned person who has been enveloped in colossal ignorance. When you see one whose conducts fall below certain expectations, you may like to review their educational history. However, a child's first teachers are his immediate family: parents, siblings, and so forth. The truth is that education is more like a seed.