Associate Editor

Rekya-Cordelia Anthony or “Nouna” as she prefers to be called, is a Togolese and American dual citizen. She is a recent graduate of Hult International Business School where she received her Master of Science in International Business. She also received a Bachelor of Art In Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Davis and Elkins College.

Though Nouna was born in the U.S. she grew up with her family in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. There, she learned to speak French. Her family relocated to the states when she was nine years old and she was raised in Charles Town, West Virginia. It was in West Virginia that she first realized how ignorant the common American was about the continent of Africa and how the rhetoric could be harmful to Africans both on the continent and abroad.

In college she was Chief Operating Officer of the campus newspaper, a Student Ambassador and president of the debate team. At Davis and Elkins, she met “Mama” Laurie Goux, the only African- American professor. Ms. Goux taught her to do her own research to gather concrete evidence that certain aspect of international volunteering were actually detrimental to the area they’re supposedly helping, something she had only speculated before.

Nouna has an affinity for travel. She studied Abroad in London, England and has visited the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Canada and Mexico, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. She also spent the last two years traveling and becoming reacquainted with the African continent. During those two years she visited Ghana, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Egypt and South Africa.

In West Africa she worked for a small local company called G-ma Jo’s. the company worked to get locally sourced, organic foods to families who would normally receive the bulk of their groceries abroad.

After getting permission to work remotely, she accepted a short term contract in Johannesburg, South Africa, with Enko Education. This company worked to build affordable, accredited elementary, and high schools throughout the continent of Africa. At Enko, Nouna was able to use her bilingual skills to help coordinate digital marketing strategies internationally to marketing heads in both French and English speaking a countries.

Nouna believes that the best way to aid the African continent is through education. Educating the world about Africa could help stop the ignorant rhetoric peddled by mass media. She’s convinced that this rhetoric is more harmful than it seems and the best way to reduce its impact is to educate the public on its ramifications. Her writing focuses on educating the West about the consequences of its “generous donations” and the great political and technological advances occurring on the African continent today.