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Bih Forcob
Bilola Fofung
Fawah Akuo
Pamela Bongkiyung
This year – 2013 remains highly significant
and will remain most memorable. Our
admirable college attained 50 years from
when it first opened its doors in October
1963. So we can proudly declare that St
Bede’s College has educated over 6
generations in the last five decades.
In addition, 2013 saw the death of an iconic
leader in the eyes of the world and
especially for all black people around the
world, in the name of Nelson Mandela.
Madiba who had been in and out of hospital
since November last year, finally gave up
the ghost on the 5th Dec. Mandela’s
dedication to fighting for what was right
cost him a lot in life but he was victorious
after 27 years in jail. He freed South
Africans from apartheid, in what has been
called the ‘second redemption’ of the black
man after the abolition of slave trade, end
of colonialism and the civil rights
movement. We can all take a leaf out of his
book on the essentials of being upright
citizens for our country’s prosperity and
progress.
Hello to you and welcome to Saint Bede’s
Students’ Association (SaBeSA) class of 2004
alumni magazine. It has been 9 years since our
batch which started out in 1997 left St Bede's
College. Some of us spent 7yrs in the 'city of
Belo Valley' while others who joined in High
School perhaps had a memorable two years.
Since that time, we have all faced some hurdles
and tried to overcome them in our own ways.
We decided to launch this magazine to
enlighten you on the difficulties associated
with making a career choice. Some people
are lucky to have family members who are
good at career orientation and
counselling. Not many are that
opportuned. We have struggled with
career choices and finally settled on some
that we still are not very certain is the
best. However, for now, those choices
seem to be leading us somewhere and so
most of us have persisted on that path.
As it is the first issue, this magazine is
looking mostly at profiles of ex-students
from the graduation class of 2004. We
discuss the various career choices people
have made and what engineered those
decisions. We equally ask our alumni what
if anything they learned from St Bede's
College moulded their career decisions or
perhaps the people they are today.
We hope that by reading their stories
and what keeps them going when faced
with obstacles, we can learn about what
careers we want to be involved in. It is a
very important decision to start thinking of
right now. This phase of your lives will set
the tone for the rest of it. Granted, some
stumble several times before finding their