#MEET Mother Nature - A Satire on Gender Inequality
This is a short interview we conducted with Dotun Adewunmi, the creator of Mother Nature - A Satire on Gender Inequality. If you like this project and would like to vote for it, click here.
1. Please, tell us a bit about yourself: where are you from and what is your background?
I'm a self-employed digital publisher in Kigali, Rwanda, addressing crucial international issues, particularly gender inequality & imperially accused African poverty.
2. Can you describe your idea or project in two sentences?
Sensitizing the masses on the great dangers of gender inequality on societies. Promoting female excellence as a showcase for the need to at the very least empower women to be equal to men in positions of power.
3. How did you get your idea or concept?
I noticed my own chauvinism when I started drawing a female centric comic for a newspaper. Trying to overcome it, led to me researching & enlightening myself about gender inequality.
4. What is unique about your idea/project and how does it benefit mankind?
I research gender inequality around the world. Then I illustrate them as webcomics or illustrations. Subsequently, I present my findings in well-referenced articles. I promote both online, thereby addressing complex issues in an easy to understand way, suitable for mass online use.
5. Describe yourself as an entrepreneur in one sentence
I'm intellectually creative, highly sensitive & have a high emotional IQ, which allows me to often see connections in disparities.
6. How do you deal with people that doubt your abilities/initiatives?
I ignore them & let my success condemn them in hate & inferiority.
7. Where does your passion lie?
Imagination & creativity, my origin.
8. What are you afraid of or what keeps you up at night?
Failure scares me & is the biggest motivator in my life.
9. According to you, money is a synonym for.....
Energy. It shouldn't be worshipped or feared. It's just an agreed upon means to an end.
10. If you could rid the world of three things, what would they be?
Imperialism, poverty & racism.
11. What are the benefits you take from the Entrepreneurship Campus?
An expanded network, more competence, fresh stimulation.
12. What do you like more about the Entrepreneurship Campus?
The awesome education you give for free. I also love the open network you provide to meet entrepreneurs around the world.
13. Which idea/project do you like most?
Mine & the education one EDU-CELL from Afghanistan. I also support the Period movement.
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