Detmer Kremer (Friesland, UWCiM 2010-2012)
Ik bin ’n Frysk. I am a Frisian. My passport is Dutch, but my ethnicity is Frisian. When I first came to UWCiM, I had to explain to people what that was. You, as a reader of this article, probably also don’t know what it is. This happens when the writer is part of a dying culture. Continue reading
Adrian Leong (Hong Kong, UWC AC 2010-12)
‘Those who do not remember history have to live through it again,’ so says the sign hung on the wall in Block Four in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in a Polish city called Krakow. Continue reading
Betty Akiny, (Kenya, UWCM 2010-2012)
The saying “there are no worries in Africa” is a phrase known world-wide, at least to all who’ve given a thought about the Black continent. Essentially, there are now too much to be worried about that we no longer consider anything problematic; instead, we opted to live exuberantly like nothing has ever happened– sounds like a mundane and useless observation, but the truth of the matter lies in the undiscovered revelations known only to the natives. The innocent citizens have had to put up with adversities created by their own chosen leaders for decades. It’s this patience that has made Africans to be widely recognized as people of great fortitude. Continue reading
