Das Futter

About unfinished chapters, quiet doubts, and the courage to finish anyway. The first time I opened a new Word document to start writing my final CAS paper, I stared at the screen and thought: How on earth do people write 20 academic pages? Twenty pages may not sound like much. But they become surprisingly long when you have absolutely no experience in academic writing. And that was exactly my situation. A few years earlier, a good friend of mine had forwarded me a link to the

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Diokpara - the privileges and responsibilities of a firstborn in Igbo and Swiss culture

Yes, I know, December is still far away, and with the ongoing heatwave in Europe, there is hardly anything more absurd than thinking...

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There is no doubt about it: Igbo people know how to party! No matter the reason for a gathering, an Igbo celebration is always fun. You...