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Siyanda Mohutsiwa Quotes

born 1993 Botswana

Siyanda Mohutsiwa (born 1993) is an internationally recognised satirical writer and speaker from Botswana. She created the satirical hashtag #IfAfricaWasABar that went viral in the summer of 2015.

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I am studying mathematics because I wanted to study something as difficult as it is useless

We fear the pain of failure, and that’s why it’s easier to want things. We don’t want to examine our parenting techniques; thinking back to painful moments in our childhoods when we vowed never to become our parents

Because, it is far easier to want a nicer, more expensive outfit than it is to ask ourselves why we can never conceive that we are enough as we are

It is easier to want a better, higher paying job than to ask ourselves what happened to the idealism that had once dominated our youth and fuelled our desire to change the world

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Siyanda Mohutsiwa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.