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MY THOUGHTS ON GENDER EQUALITY By Mide Benedict

I believe the word equality should be a word that synchronizes our thoughts on living, on character correction and human rightness. It should not be an ideology left or embraced by one person, a few or perhaps many; rather it should an ideological stance that captures and envelopes the mind of every human being.  It should be a word being used as a compulsory synonym to freedom because if we say we fight for freedom or we have won freedom for humanity, while leaving the female gender behind, then our struggle, blood and act are false and cannot be in anyway accepted as freedom. It's like rescuing a cow but leaving its horns behind; it's most evident the cow with not survive the blink of time.  I strongly believe that if education is you to be offered, then it should be for all, speech, it should be for all, and also employment should be based on capacity and the ability of the human being being tested for the employment opportunity, wheter or not they are su...

NIGHT OF NEVER DAY by Mide Benedict

I saw a tree in a nest Then the nest was in a cage And the cage was hidden in a room Absent of light But filled with Active familiar voices like That from a dormant mind. Then I realised that Some are nothing but voices That were never heard, Love that was never felt, Peace that never reigned, Some are paths that were never treaded. They are smokes of no fire. So what happens when they are gone? They remain in our hearts as moons Left by the night of a never day.