Don't chase people, chase your destiny.

''Don't chase people, chase your destiny,'' is something that I've been telling myself almost everyday this past week. It is a phrase that I personally find motivational because it helps me to remember the most important thing in my life, my destiny and I thought it would be nice to share it with everyone.
I began to tell myself this phrase after I tried to resolve something with an old friend in order to be on good terms with them. However, my efforts were unsuccessful and nothing was resolved. It was at that moment that I realised that I can't be on good terms with everyone, sometimes it's best to just keep things moving. I do not owe anyone my friendship, time or effort and I am definitely not obliged to be anyone's friend. My point is that there is no reason to chase after people when there are better things to be chasing after, i.e your destiny. I believe that everyone has a destiny, and we must work hard to achieve our destiny. Although the relationships that we have with people are important, once those relationships crumble and attempts to amend things fail, there is no point in trying to force things because you'll waste your time and energy focusing on less important things and not have time to place your energy in the more important things in life, your destiny.
So I urge everyone to chase their destiny and not people.

Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word

"Religion makes you blind, but Jesus makes you see"

This has to be one of my favourite YouTube video's ever, simply because I feel that he is speaking the truth. This is such an amazing piece of spoken word and I completely agree with everything that he says.
What do you think about this video?

Yaa Asantewaa - a Queen who inspires me

Yaa Asantewaa, the warrior Queen

Brief History

Nana Yaa Asantewaa was the Queen Mother of  Ejusi in the Ashanti empire. In 1900 she led the Ashanti rebellion, which is commonly referred to as the War of The Golden Stool, against British Colonialism. This rebellion occurred after the British exiled the Asantehene (King of Ashanti) and various other members of the Ashanti government to the Seychilles. After exiling the Asantehene, the British governor-general of the Gold Coast demanded the Golden stool. The Golden stool was and still is a major symbol of the Ashanti nation. This request led to a meeting in which the remaining members of the Asante government discussed how to secure the return of their king. Present at this meeting was Yaa Asantewaa, stood and addressed those present at the meeting with these famous words:

"Now I see that some of you fear to go forward to fight for our king. If it was in the brave days of Osei Tutu, Okomfo Anokye, and Opoku Ware, chiefs would not sit down to see their king to be taken away without firing a shot.

No European could have dared speak to chiefs of Asante in the way the governor spoke to you this morning. Is it true that the bravery of Asante is no more? I cannot believe it. It cannot be! I must say this: if you, the men of Asante, will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight! We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields."

With this, she led the Ashanti uprising in 1900.

I have decided to dedicate an entire blog post to Yaa Asantewaa because I personally feel that she is a very important figure in Asante history and she stands out from other important Asante historical figures because she was a female. I especially admire her courage to fight the British occupation in the Asante Kingdom despite the fact that the other male leaders were not initially motivated to fight. I think that she is one of Africa's greatest female leaders.

Yaa Asantewaa is a Queen who inspires me.

Introduction

Hello, welcome to my blog.
I didn't know what to write for my first blog post so I decided to just give a quick introduction about myself.
Here are 10 facts about me:

1. My name is Nana, I am 17 years old and I live in London
2.  I am the middle child, I have an older sister who is in uni and a little brother in year 2.
3. At the moment I've just started 6th form and I'm trying to get used to the massive leap from GCSE's to A-Levels. I didn't think that it was going to be easy, but I didn't expect it to be this hard either. However, I am certain that with a great amount of hard work I will be able to conquer them.
4. I am a proud Ghanaian, and I view myself as a Ghanaian Queen. 
5. I decided to create this blog because I felt that there weren't many blogs out there that reached out to people like me. I hope that other young Queens will be able to relate to my blog.
6. I enjoy drawing.
7. I love listening to music and I often use music as a means to escape from the world. My favourite genres are Afrobeats, Hiplife/Highlife and Hip Hop.
8. My favourite colour is purple.
9. My favourite TV shows are Empire, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Teen Wolf, Love and Hip Hop and Real Housewives of Atlanta. 
10. I had to write a 10th fact  because I don't like odd numbers 

Hope you've enjoyed reading the introduction to my blog, stay tuned for more blog posts from me in the near future.

Nana xx