Written by Ololade Tiamiyu. Have you ever heard the saying, “The most beautiful treasures are found in the most unlikely and unseeming places”? I used to nod along, thinking I understood. But it wasn’t until my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)...
Written by Onu Emmanuel Ugochukwu. I’m excited to write and share my experiences as a corps member in a grassroots community for the past year. Initially, I felt discouraged, fearing my goals and aspirations were slipping away. However, a divine intervention...
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Creating solutions to real-life problems is one of the Prikkle Academy’s goals. While everyone talks about the problems and how to solve them, we think and act otherwise. We work with children and youths in African communities to start with ‘what they...
Prikkle Academy is set out to inspire and empower young people across Africa and we’ve stayed true to that vision for years. We don’t take lightly our people who are helping our cause throughout the continent. After rounds of interviews with prospective...
Going to a museum in Nigeria and all over the world has not been easy in the past year due to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and restrictions in place. Shorter opening hours and fear of a second wave of the virus has reduced the number of visitors and also led to the...
Apart from language, few things bring humans together in the world! Why is that? Communication (for example, speaking and imitating gestures) in any of the world languages is one of the first things infants learn while growing up. In fact, it is the joy of every...
When you think about a school, what comes to mind? It has the teachers, students, curriculum, classes, timetable for classes and many other things. Now, imagine walking into a school without a teacher. Imagine entering a learning centre and it is called a school...
Have you ever thought about how people you admire turn their dreams into reality? You have goals too (not just wishes) that you have been thinking of achieving – to study abroad, to travel the world, to buy some beautiful shoes, to make 5 new and trusted friends or to...
Have you heard about the Africa Makerspace Gathering? It is a fact that human beings have potentials, but how could they reach them? They have talents and gifts, how could they discover them? Creating opportunities for children and youths to leverage on their skills,...
Beyond the work we do every day at Prikkle Academy to inspire and empower young people across the African Continent, one of the core and important aspect we don’t take lightly is our PEOPLE. “I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and...
We had a #AskOurChampion Twitter chat with Humans of Prikkle Academy, over 10 days, for them to share their stories during the pandemic. We are aware that during the coronavirus pandemic across the world, the world almost stood still. The young and old had to learn...
Have you been trying to guess what Prikkle Academy Makerspace has been doing during the coronavirus pandemic?” We have answers, this first article shared some of it. This article will give more answers. At Prikkle Academy, we invest in capacity building – our team...
You may have been wondering, “What has Prikkle Academy makerspace been up to during during coronavirus pandemic?” This article will give you the answers. The world has been hit in all directions by the deadly Covid-19 virus. It stopped businesses, events...
In Nigeria, Children’s Day was established as a holiday in 1964 and since then it has been celebrated every 27th of May in Nigeria. The day is usually a public holiday for Primary and Secondary school children and many private and public organizations usually...
Have you ever heard somewhere called “Awowo Community” before? Most likely, you haven’t But, have you ever heard about the phrase, ‘what if…?’ When you hear that phrase, what comes to mind? There could be several thoughts and it can lead to many...
Children deserve all the care, the love and the resources that they need to become successful and happy adults. For the past year, schools and many adults have reduced the way for children to learn to only one – listen to instructions and do only what you are told to...
There is a popular saying that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. While this may be true, at Prikkle Academy, we believe that necessity shouldn’t always be the reason to want to invent. Education is life itself. It starts from the womb to the tomb, it begins from...
Did you know that the present school system was created over 150 years ago to meet up with the demand for laborers to fulfill the boom of industrial revolution of 19th century? Are you aware that today’s industries no longer need hundreds of thousands of people to...
Abubakar, Prikkle Academy Centre Manager. It’s a new year! Phew, Prikkle Academy clocked 2 years old in January 2018. We have had a great journey so far; we met failure on the way, it dragged us around and we eventually turned it into a huge success. Join us as we...
All our dreams can come through if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney. Let’s get your ears to smell what happened to Prikkle Academy recently with a little personal story as related by our Founder, Fasoranti Damilola; “So, the early hours of May 25,...
Do you believe in the limitless power of people? Do you see the world as filled with brilliants gifts, huge talents, special skills and resourceful communities? Do you feel that ‘ordinary’ people that you pass by every day can do creative, innovative, ‘awe-mazing’ and...
My parents did the coital magic again and boom, my birth certificate also confirms that I was born some 26 years ago, in Akure town, Ondo State, Nigeria. I am the third child, with three other amazing siblings – a total equals a nuclear family of six. I grew up to...
We all missed it. We have waited all along for its comeback. Now, it finally returned and it has come to stay – PrikkleAcademy Innovative Classrooms. Our team has been interfacing with the community youths more towards the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. We are...
Dreams come true. Creativity sparkles. Communities Innovate. Youth Inspires. Dreams wear the foot of the fastest animals; it goes to the stadium and wins the high jumps. Dreams shake like a tree with curious wind on its face, it dances like leaves in love wind the...
Do you know that there’s a particular day in the year that is the most important? Are you aware that on this day, people spend a lot to celebrate it? For many reasons, people like you can easily slip into the idea that without enough food, roses, music and money, you...
There is a growing concern that there is poverty everywhere in the world, and especially in Africa. We have all heard from the media, non-profit development organizations, our neighbours, the Government, public and private organization how poor we are in Africa. But,...
Prikkle Educational Initiative (Prikkle Academy) has sown a seed of development in Mbagishi Community of Benue State, Nigeria. We have been able to identify the assets, strengths and potentials in this community. We did not just talk about the gifts and resources,...
Collaboration is one of the key themes on which Prikkle Academy runs her programs. We are convinced that innovation and creativity is encouraged when people of different ages, experience, strengths and talents share ideas to create sustainable social change. It is...
It’s no longer news that there many streets in urban communities of Nigeria doesn’t have electricity in weeks. This situation is even more appalling in rural communities where some of these villages don’t have an electric pole talk less of the hope of having...
If you knew that just ₦100 (half a $) can break the information gap for rural communities, wouldn’t that be exciting? When you hear the word ‘rural’, what readily comes to mind? You think about subsistence agriculture, poverty, lack of access to social infrastructures...
It will not cost any school a fortune to infuse creativity and innovation in the activities students engage in while in school. There is an urgent need to question the idea of the teacher giving all the knowledge and the students consuming it without questioning or...
A big gourd with a hole in the bottom cannot be filled – Maasai Proverb After an intensive 3 weeks of finding out the huge store of people’s capacities and drafting out the importance of the institutions in Mbagishi Community, a settlement in Tsar, Vandeikya Local...
When you look at Mbagishi community, what you generally see are the thatched houses, the untarred roads, no sight of electric poles, scanty hospital professionals and so on. The written hands of what we call ‘poverty’ are clearly visible in this rural community of...
Taking the first step in any activity is usually a big challenge. While you have an ideal vision and a solution to community problems, to get people to buy into the idea might be a hurdle. But when you eventually take the little step, you’ll find out that the activity...
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