REPORT ON DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOP BY JOSEPH WERNA TERLUMUN, jowizapoet@yahoo.co.uk, 08053273828

 The Tiv Internet Project(TIP), under the auspices of the African Leadership Forum(ALF), through the aid of some well meaning Tiv sons, has taken up the laudable project of sponsoring their sons and daughters intellectually,. The intention is to make leaders that will catch up with new trends of leadership and information communications technologies in order to stand the test of time. This simply means that no Tiv son or daughter will be left behind.

I see the Tiv Internet project as a clarion call on all Tiv sons and daughters to stand up to responsibility in their various endeavours and creating an atmosphere of widening their scopes. This is one opportunity that the Democratic Leadership Training Workshop(DLTW) has availed me courtesy of the African Leadership forum.

When I was invited for the workshop, I didn’t know what to face, but my expectations were high. This, drawn from a glimpse I got about the Africa Leadership Forum and their programmes through my sister who had just completed a stimulating session at the ALF centre.

My arrival at the African Leadership forum instead proved right everything my sister had briefed me about. I am also a living beneficiary of the Tiv Internet Project. The democratic leadership training workshop is one programme which is loaded with in-depth information one cannot get anywhere. This centre of knowledge through its wealth of information thus leaves a participant with the only choice of being empowered.

The Democratic Leadership Training Workshop has thus given me the drive to carry out projects that dwell on breaking the borders of negativism and putting the Tiv Nation in Positive light. Mine dwells with branding clothes (T-shirts) which will flaunt visual messages via-screen print. This is to help spread the Tiv positive consciousness.

This dream I also intend to pursue in the area of drama as a graduate of theatre, since drama is a potent tool of change. This will also help create awareness and a lasting consciousness in the minds of many a Tiv youth.

I want to appreciate the efforts of Mr. Vitalis Ortese and Mr. Bemsen Ugo for championing the course of the Tiv Internet Project (TIP) on whose ticket I came to know about the African leadership forum and right now empowered to breakout and to be relevant in a nation like ours. I have indeed learnt something new courtesy of your very lofty project and I must confess that I’ m not my old self anymore.