TEDx: THE POWER OF SHARED CONVICTIONS
As we dipped hands into a big plate like children of the same father to celebrate the successful outing of Sokoto TEDxArkilla 2018’s Festival of Ideas, it rightly dawned on me that the future of a multi-cultural and highly-sensitive society like ours depends on shared convictions and intelligent conversations that positively shape our perspectives about the prejudices and biases we have against people of different religion and tribe. Despite our tribal, religious, sexual and even professional differences, TEDxArkilla 2018 afforded me and the 23 people on the volunteers’ team the once-in-a-lifetime golden opportunity to brainstorm, network, synergize and work with diverse people: a Muslim from the north teaming up with a Christian from the south, an Igbo with an Hausa, a banker with a student, a youth corps member with an engineer, a Master’s student with an artisan just to put Sokoto State on the map of global relevance! It is sheer buffoonery to use the index of minor...