zangina sulaiman

Activist, Blogger, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Event planner, Muslim, Policy maker, Single, Social entrepreneur, Startup

My name is Zangina Sulaiman, I'm the organizer of TEDxRibaduStreet from Kano State Nigeria. I work in the Planning unit of National Biotechnology Development Agency as Statistician. I attended Kano University of Science and Technology , Wudil and Bayero University Kano for my undergraduate studies in Statistics and Post graduate Studies in Computer Science respectively. I'm a co-organizer of the Voice of Tsakuwa People; an organization that echoes the problem in my community. I'm also co-founded our high school old student association and also have the privilege of being its pioneer president.

I'm passionate about changing the political,social and economic construct of my community from being bad to good.

We are all genius, we can all contribute in changing the world from what it's to what it should be.

We can change the world through focus, hard work and persistence. The very people who bring changes to their community are the people who their community does not think highly of them because these people engage in activities that are totally new to their communities. We can always change beliefs through persistence, if we refuse to be intimidated by the intimidating size of failure. TEDx was never organized in my community before, so organizing TEDx event was a herculean task for me; from educating, to organizing volunteers to getting sponsors. With patience and dedication we were able to surmount all forms of obstacle and be able to host first TEDx event in my community. This is the reason why I said you need to have focus and patience in everything that you do.

People don't know that I always strive hard to make my community better in everything that I do.