I'LD RATHER BE SELF-MADE - LINDA IKEJI
just admire her from afar. Please, don’t interrupt her greatness.” And extremely, it is difficult being a woman in a society like ours. Here, the women are facing the challenge of identity.
And I think after our Queen, Linda Ikeji has had her own feel of experiences, she considered it wise to question the woman’s status and the issue of equal rights bothering them as being relevant to every society. She is definitely not comfortable with devalue of a woman’s worth and dignity. Women are to be prided with great respect and sense of nobility.
Unfortunately, it is highly disappointing that most women themselves don’t understand their positions in the count of things and in activities of life. In marriages, they make the most regrettable mistakes. In choice of career, they make the most horrible choice of vocation. Was it not why a lady was asked what she would be looking out in a man for marriage, and she replied, “I need a tall, handsome and rich man for marriage.” You can imagine! Anyway, I’m not sure it’s for marriage; probably she needs such man for a wedding, as most ladies now invest so much energy in planning their weddings than marriage.
You don’t take little or momentary decisions that would shatter the rest of your life and existence. This is the primary essence of Linda Ikeji’s project. She wants the ladies to go through the pains of building a future, and then enjoy it forever when it will come. And I’m happy this is coming from her; a woman who has had her experience of social, economic and cultural oppression. Today, I’m also happy that she is experiencing the joy of dignity, equality and fulfillment.
How come the headline? I came across this screaming headline from a Nigerian blog: “Linda Ikeji Throws 15 Million To Nigerian Ladies With Good Business Ideas.” It is coming from the heels of her newly found love, Project “I’d Rather Be Self Made”.
Before I read about the project, I’ve seen the statement “I’d Rather Be Self Made” on a customized red top she wore in a photo, a time. And the other, it was a piece written by one of my natural and real friends, Onyeka Nwelue. I prefer calling him real, but he chooses to describe himself as being shameless; maybe because he takes responsibility of his action. I think! In his piece, he noted: “When I started chatting with her via WhatsApp, her profile status said and still says: ‘I’d Rather Be Self Made.’ This will sound funny, but she doesn’t allow people do anything for her.”
What does it mean? She lives a life she preaches. What she wants, she adopts. And she is not being hypocritical over it. On her latest project, I will agree that, “she has had her fair share of turmoil, troubles and hustles. She has faced crushing rejection. She is driven by the will to pay back many people, to succeed.” And personally, I think it is the exact reason behind the unveiling of Project Self Made.
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