Capitalism and its concomitant red tape restricts those who desire self-determination, while racism compounds these issues.

While Orest’s family was successful, they encountered many hardships, this is due to the Rwandan genocide that happened from 1993 to 1994. His family fled Rwanda and moved to Congo for a better life. They were forced to sell their property, their homes and everything that they owned. They lived in Congo for about two years before the Congolese government started kicking people out. This led the Ndabaneze family back to Burundi, where Orest was born.

Eve is the founder of Capability Career Group, a Calgary-based organization specializing in diversity, inclusion and belonging, academic advising, career development and employment skills workshops.

Eve started in this industry by working for employment agencies in Calgary and seeing first-hand just how rigged the system is.

Misha was born in Swaziland and raised in South Africa, Australia and Canada. She credits the African continent’s rich culture of music and singing as well as the church, for her early appreciation of music.

On the bright side of stress-pessimism, depressive rage is probably the most appropriate mood for listening to black and death metal, which is, once again, what we are doing here.

You are putting the burden of education unto a student disguised as an “opportunity to share.” You are putting a student on the spot in an environment that has most likely not been optimized for their safety.