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Which topics would you like to be more informed about?

The topic I would love to be more informed about is mental health. Mental health is a state of emotional, psychological, and social well-being that impacts how you think, feel, and act, enabling you to cope with life’s normal stresses, work productively, and contribute to your community.

Mental health affects everyone, from childhood through old age, and is fundamental to enjoying life and realizing your full potential. 

Most people don’t even know about their mental health, some will be going through some difficulties and challenges but won’t know it’s affecting them mentally. The more we learn about our mental health, the better for us all.

Mental health awareness makes us be in control of our lives, emotions, and general well-being, and keeping it in check makes us stronger and healthier.

How do you celebrate holidays?

I remember years back when I was still in school, when I had so much time to do whatever I wanted to do. Those years I always traveled home from school to celebrate every holiday.

I always look forward to every holiday because it’s a period of joy, relaxation, fun, so much laughter, and meeting friends and family members I haven’t seen for a long time.

The Christmas holidays are my favorite holidays because the house is always full, aunties and uncles, sisters and brothers, cousins, nieces and nephews, everyone is always around during the Christmas holidays. There is so much energy and it’s always spirit-filled moment.

What I enjoy the most is the different delicacies being prepared and the giving and receiving of gifts and also the numerous activities to attend to, from marriage introductions to traditional marriages, weddings, naming ceremonies, or traditional games often held in the village squares, and also the gathering of kinsmen to thank God for a successful and prosperous year.

Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.

Excitement is what fuels the soul. So many things can be fun and interesting, but only the ones we choose to excite us that does the job.

Life is all about struggles and we need a time, a place, and space to recollect ourselves, to find our peace, and do what makes us happy and lightens our spirit.

The last thing I got excited about at the end of each day was going home to my solitude, a home where I can relax and be myself. A place I can be me and lay my soul bare without thinking about anything or anyone just me,

How would you design the city of the future?

Everyone deserves a better future. Everyone deserves to be where they are happy and stress-free. Everyone deserves a conducive and rejuvenating environment.

People hope and pray for a good future, a future with no struggles or pain or poverty. They want a future where they can reap the fruit of their labour.

If I were allowed to design the city of the future, I would make sure to make it a conducive place, a lively, livable, and very welcoming one. It will be a place where people will not have to flounder to get their basic needs.

It will be a city where everyone respects one another and maintains their boundaries but love would be everything in this city. People will love more, give more, care more, and laugh more.