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A Thousand Leagues: Memoir on Personal Development

  A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step   CONFUCIUS Philosopher           I have climbed many mountains. This book is about how I climbed the many mountains in my life. I have climbed a thousand mountains in my life using the knowledge and tools I learnt in books. I have written a lot on principles of success. I adopted these principles from international motivational and personal development gurus like Jack Canfield, Napoleon Hill, Robert Kiyosaki, Brian Tracy, Anthony Robbins, and others. I decided to collate them as an anthology of what I have written over the years. Hence, this book will contain pieces I have written over many years going back to 2010 or thereabouts. Otherwise, most of the chapters were published every week as newspaper articles. I acknowledge  The National  newspaper for publishing most of these articles in the column known as “ Steven’s Window”  within “The Weekend”.  I have since then...

Language Bears the Burden of My Experience

  Influence of Pidgins, Vernaculars, and Pacific English in Pacific Literature I have always wanted to see the influence of pidgins and local languages, including variant of English used in Pacific Islands writing.  I could not help notice I was working all the time with the languages I know as an Indigenous Pacific Islander.  It was important for me to express myself freely in all languages I know.     Research on Influence of pidgins, creoles, vernaculars, and Pacific English in contemporary writings in Oceania are prevalent.   Included in this essay are links to online resources that might interest you. I guess that was part of the reason to write this essay "Pidgin Poetics in Oceania" , now published in Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Literature. Link https://oxfordre.com An excerpt is given below.