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Jackline Waziri was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1993, she was the daughter of Fauzia Waziri Juma.
Her mother Mwanjaa Shabaan Robert, Jackline is the great granddaughter of the legendary Swahili language writer and poet Late Shaaban Robert.
When Waziri moved to the United Kingdom, she developed a keen interest in Literature, Creative writing and Poetry.
Today, she is an upcoming Poet with profound thirst for life on a mission to make a difference to her generation and African communities worldwide.
Her poems are rich in imagery, a wide range of stylistic devices and content inspired by a deep world of experiences, transitions ,journeys and the unapologetic vision to embrace “All things African”
Waziri illustrates her truth and paints an art of her journey here in the UK, but her writing also embraces a world that still lives in Tanzania, this is also reflected through her writing.
Jackline recently published her first book of poetry titled “Mwana”. She is also The Africa4u youth ambassador for the UK.
On Saturday at the Championship Dinner, the amazing Jamaican born Rupert Evans was presented with his Grassroots Lifetime Achiever Award by Jack Brooks for his profound contribution
Mr Rupert Evans continues to make a profound difference to the world of Cricket.
Playing for Oxfordshire allowed him to represent the Minor Counties cricket team. He played a single first-class match for the team in 1990 against the touring Indians.[5] He took 2 wickets in the match, those of Ravi Shastri and Kapil Dev.[6] He also played List A cricket for the Minor Counties, first appearing for them in limited-overs cricket against Northamptonshire in the 1988 Benson & Hedges Cup. He played 17 further List A matches for the team, the last coming in the 1995 Benson & Hedges Cup against Warwickshire.[3] Evans took just 4 wickets in his 18 matches for the team, coming at an expensive average of 137.25.[4]
My name is Takudzwa Chikepe. Famously known as VaChikepe: The Poet. I am 34 years and a Zimbabwean. I started writing Poetry from the age of 19 and I am still writing. I specialize in writing and reading Poetry. My first book is on Amazon and it is entitled, “Mental Gymnastics” https://www.amazon.com/Mental-Gymnastics-Takudzwa-Chikepe/dp/099783000X My Biggest Award so far, is being the Best Poet in the Mutabaruka Awards of the International Reggae And World Music Awards (IRAWMA), 2021. Currently, I am at Duke University in the US, studying Masters in Divinity. My greatest wish is to develop Poetry in Africa, together with its Poets and to publicly display the power of Poetry.
Mwana Events Presents MWANA & POETS SAT 18 DEC 2021 – 8PM ( UK TIME) | Poetry | Network | Zoom Celebrating African Culture & Creativity Providing African Entertainment WE WELCOME YOU ALL Not to be missedSpecial Guest :Takudzwa Chikepe AKA VaChikepe: The PoetMutabaruka: Best Poet (2021)Founder & Publisher: The Sailors ReviewLatest Book: Mental Gymnastics From Zimbabwe
Linda’s EDI experience includes the private sector, regulatory sector and public sector.
Her work, (18 years police work and 14 years Local Authority), included advocating at ministerial level post MacPherson, looking at over representation of BAME, bias, differential progression and professionalism within the force.
She specialises in improvement, relationships, systems change, management and leadership.
For example, she is currently designing and developing the Corporate Equalities Commission’s model, and terms of reference, working with cross party elected members, political leaders, communities and key stakeholders.
She harnesses and uses a strength-based approach coupled with strong systems leadership style, to bring about effective and equalising changes between communities. She is developing a £500,000.000 engagement strategy for community champions, which focuses on building trust and confidence., using an EDI perspective.
She unpacks the health inequalities presented as a result of COVID, to provide a targeted response to underrepresented people, focusing on EDI, vulnerability and issues around poverty.
Her unique and authentic perspective gives her immediate credibility, as a critical friend, EDI expert and leadership consultant. Linda’s peer review experience includes: peer reviewing for the police, in particular the National Police Improvement Agency, providing a critical EDI perspective and feedback on a number of issues like operational strategies, stop and search and hate crimes, peer reviewing multi-agencies in children services, looking at issues like child protection as part of their sustainability and improvement plans, and, peer reviewing for a private consultancy on EDI, reviewing EDI issues like transgender, intersectional identities and challenging the actions and behaviours of consultant trainers.
Linda provides EDI solutions tailored to meet specific organisational challenges and achieves outcomes that allow people to overcome barriers and maximise their full potential.
Her strength is her ability to work with a wide range of clients and organisations that are going through complex changes, particularly local authorities and marginalised, isolated and underrepresented groups. She supports them with improvements to their processes, people and partners in a way that empowers them to succeed. She has a good appreciation of the nuances involved when encouraging
PERSONAL BIO
Linda comes from a family of community leadership in Huddersfield her father was one of the first black magistrates and business owners of Silver Sands/Cleopatra’s nightclub aka “Venn Street” in the 1970 & 80’s in Huddersfield. Business and community are her blood.
She spent 18 years working in the criminal justice system and the first woman to be chair of the National Black Police Association 2009. Linda held a portfolio around, gun & knife crime, stop and search and advocated not only for serving black police officers but also the community at ministerial level post MacPherson.
She is an experienced and qualified trainer delivering training internationally on black history, leadership, diversity, advocacy and safeguarding. She is a fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs SSE 2017 and has an active social enterprise Young Gifted & Black Enterprises which offers training, workshops, event management and education for the benefit of the black community.
She has worked in many public sector roles and currently holds portfolios around Housing, Employment, children & young people and health and wellbeing. She has been recognised her public roles and community activities to name a few – Outstanding contribution to vulnerable victims of crime – NBPA best community engagement programme Natural born Leaders for 3 consecutive years 2006-2009. – Awarded for outstanding contribution to effective change in housing sector – Shortlisted for European Diversity Award 2021 for best community project Iroko
Linda was the founding Director and education lead for Young Gifted & black supplementary school a montly Saturday school for children from the African & Caribbean community teaching STEAM subjects and black history based at the University of Huddersfield.
YGB does not accept any formal funding or grants and as such can remain authentic and genuine in the focus on the progression of black children. That said most importantly Linda is the mother of two gifted black children who has the battle scars from fighting the system to ensure they are the best that they can be. She describes herself as a Pan Africanist activist and self determination in the community and calls upon the wisdom of our great ancestors like John Henrik Clarke historian and educator who said, “We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize”
Linda believes that education, unity, empowerment and black on black solutions are the only way we can move forward as a people.
It is no surprise that this amazing man has been shortlisted among six other amazing General practitioners to win the National General Practitioner of the Year award out of thousands of amazing nominations .
There is no doubt whatsover, that the winning spirit in Dr Ahmed will continue to embrace new paths of great manifestations .
The City of Bradford still has a strong role to play in celebrating great community every day achievers who are able to achieve so much with very little resources.
She holds a B.A in Film &Television and a Masters degree in Stage Performance, as well as several workshops and masterclasses with reputable industry professionals that have helped enhance her skills.
She sits on the Bradford Producing Hub; Creativity Council, Secretary for Bradford Pride and Sharp&Engagaing Radio Panel on BCB 106.6 FM.
She is a character-actor, with credits performing as One-woman, Ensemble, Public Speaker, Narrator, Broadcast Journalist, Pop-culture critic, Roadie, Stand-up comic, Poetic Rendition, Radio host and Facilitator. Kafayat Adègoke is a Spotlight registered artist. She is currently appearing in Steph’s Packed Lunch on Channel 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9R_1BXADWU . Russell T Davies / BBC Years and Years featuring Emma Thompson and Rory Kinnear. Channel 4 Great British Sex. And Manchester United FC Ad for Premier league tagged #Projectrestart
A mouth-piece for women’s rights and has been invited to speak at various women oriented events like .Venus radio International Women’s Day broadcast .UK screening of Netflix film ‘Knock down the house’ (documentary based on women of colour in America doing grassroot campaigns and taking on big politicians) at the National Science and Media Museum.Park Avenue Ladies Cricket International Women’s day event. Bradford Transformed – International women’s Day event
The New Friends of Lister Park group invite you to the launch event & Park Clean-up.on Saturday 4th December @1pmSign up below to join the event:http://bit.ly/FLiP-launch-registerPlease share with your friends, family and everyone that loves Lister park, and let’s start making this park shine!
People who are out to score cheap points for political correctness are never economical with sycophancy instead they remain shameless masters of the act. They betray confidentiality and rape trust.
Some people don’t just manufacture lies but they do everything within their reach to spread such lies and make some other people believe they are truths. With this, they elongate the span of deception, maintain the tempo of falsehood and perpetuate the circle of enmity.
Real or imaginary, nothing can unite a people more than having a common enemy. Where this plays out, abuse becomes the new normal and retrogression reigns. The concept of enmity and the propensity to deal with it at all cost, sometimes without proper diagnosis or even an attempt to know if it actually exists, is the primary cause of the problem most people have.
When we hear what we want to hear, we can jump into conclusion and take action without making any effort to verify what we heard – and every hasty decision with its resultant action can be counterproductive. Apart from making costly avoidable mistakes, the law of cause and effect or action and reaction is always at work. To every action there is a corresponding reaction. And retaliation is a dangerous form of reaction.
It’s also been observed that some people for no just cause can inherit another person’s enemies and suffer grave consequences thereafter with or without the knowledge of the person they inherited his or her enemies. Like crying more than the bereaved, some people can sheepishly go to any length to defend what they believe in even when such belief is false or unhealthy. Belief and conviction can make one a fan but with an untested and unexamined fans comes fanaticism – and fanatics are difficult to relate with.
People tend to amplify negative things just to make a mole out of mice. Evil news spreads at the speed of light while good news gets little or no attention. And the things we persistently hear have ways of affecting the way we live. Our view of others can be affected by mere things we hear about them even without knowing them or having personal dealings with them.
We gather and exert much energy to pull others down but will be too scared to make a little sacrifice to advance their cause. We excel on the darkling plain of primitivity, using primordial sentiments to feed the flame of division and enmity. This should stop. If we cannot build, let us not destroy. It will be better to keep quiet when there is nothing good to talk about than to open the mouth and malign an innocent person for selfish reasons.
Don’t forget that what goes around comes around. The same measure we use for others will be used for us but most times in many folds. Even in the thick of darkness, no man can run away from his shadow. The time of harvest will surely come. Yes, there will always be a payback time.
When they cannot manipulate and control you, they will resort to devising means to eliminate you but the way of man is different from the way of God. It is only God that gives and preserves life. Be as wise as the serpent and do all you can not to play into the hands of the people that want you down and out at all cost by all means.
We live in a wicked world with many people having a penchant for evil but fear not. Conduct your life with goodness and mercy having respect for the dignity of life. Strive to give your affordable best all the time. Learn to expect the best but be out to live with the worst when inevitable. There can be no gain without pain.
Watch your back and be mindful of your actions. Observe how people react to you and matters concerning you. There is no smoke without fire; there will be no condemnation without a cause. Most people who criticize and fight you do so out of the stories they heard about you – and you might be surprised that it is someone close to you that painted you black before them and without confirmation they formed their opinion and go about attacking you for no just cause.
Some people feel that the only way they can get attention is by using your name so they can stop at nothing to malign and blackmail you. For making it and causing things to happen, you are not just some people’s prayer points; you are their dominant aspiration and greatest desire. Being a star attracts attention which may be positive or negative. Rejoice and be glad indeed for it is only the tree with succulent fruits that receives pebbles. No one can waste energy and time talking about nobody. People will only talk about you when there is something special about you. Your exploit will attract attention and the bigger the more.
Fear not if your hands are clean otherwise amend your ways while there is still time. Keep up the good work and you will finish strong and die empty.
Do great things with passion and ease. With conviction, live larger than life. Turn things around for better. Rule the world with great ideas. Strive for onward and upward movement. Re-make the world – your world – and become a celebrity.
There is really no competition in destiny, and delay is not denial. Know the reason for the season and get the best of the situation. You are here for a purpose. Discover and fulfill it in time.
Arise by lifting up others. Give a helping hand. Show little kindness and propagate unconditional love even when it is abused and trampled underfoot.
Those who go out to do good rarely go down without achieving results. Again, it is better to try and fail than not trying at all.
They are more fulfilled that reached out and touched lives in diverse ways, solving problems and adding more values to life than those who clinched their fingers to conserve their possessions. The hand that gives never lacks for release leads to increase.
The society is better, and the people rejoice, when a lasting solution is found for a ravaging persistent problem – and anyone who discovered the solution will become famous and wealthy. Embrace this challenge. Discover something new and great. Go out and seek solutions to big problems – and you would be glad that you indeed do.
It has been established that people often have idea problems, not really money problems, and ideas rule the world. To rule the world therefore, come up with ideas – great ideas that will add value to people.
Develop the capacity for meaningful new ideas and go a step further for implementation. Action, timely action, matters. Task yourself for meaningful work and work for results that will leave your world better than you met it. This is a sure way for a sonorous dirge when the time comes to answer nature’s call!
Limited spaces. Book in for a great FREE training with a certificate of attendance too. This Sunday, 21st November *BRADFORD LIFESAVERS* will be held at St James Church, Thornton.
Training is provided by qualified healthcare professionals and covers all aspects of Basic Life Support training (BLS).Certificates provided on completion.
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