I said I didn’t mind it I knew, I knew it Girls like I, look for it, And end up being hurt Girls like…

Born in south of France, from an Ivorian-Senegalese father and an Algerian mother, Jessi M’bengue is a successful super model who has risen through the ranks and into the sacred circle of in-demand international super models. She is the African beauty in the 2013 mega hit song: Blurred lines with Robin Thicke, T.I and Pharrell Williams.

I started getting into modeling in 2009 then started acting professionally a year after. I was a second runner up at miss Teen Africa pageant in 2008…A year later, I was invited to be in a fashion show, gave it a go and everything else started happening after that. My advantage is that I’m not afraid to try new things.

The estimate worldwide is that more than 130 million girls and women have undergone the procedure of FGM. The origins of female circumcision or FGM have been lost in antiquity, but the practice remains prevalent in East and West Africa, parts of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as among first-generation immigrants from these regions to Europe, Canada, Australia, and the United States.

There has been so much said about Congo, the heart of darkness, the ghost of King Leopold, the footsteps of Dr. Kurtz, these stories…

University is better than College.” Most students, especially African students, have heard that phrase being used at one time or another. Maybe it was a piece of advice from parents… or a comment made by peers. We have all heard it before, and many of us believed it. But is it a fact that university is better than college?