Interview Questions for Thandeka

Some Interview questions.

It is so important that people create their own data online.

Dear Thandeka,

While working on your Wikipedia article most of the references I found were from social media. This might create some problems in regards to notability. This is not unusual when it comes to Black people.  Due to the biases of mainstream white media. 

I think what our people have to do is to create their own content.  

Today, I created some additional questions.  Feel free to rewrite any of the questions and pick which ones you want to use.

What can be done is that after you answer whatever you want to answer we can then send it to different media outlets, etc. 

DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH THIS INFORMATION.  THIS IS JUST A RECOMMENDATION.  

Take care.

Linda Dabo

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. 

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Most people know very little about South Africa other than what main stream media reports on. What would you like to share to give people more insight, understanding, and knowledge.  In fact, Western Media does a dis-service when reporting on Africa in general. They seem to mostly report on Africa when there is a problem.  

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What was life like growing up in Kwazulu-Natal?

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What was family life like?

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What was the natural environment like, and your interaction with nature?

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What motivates you?

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Your accomplishments you are most proud of?

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I read where you developed some clinics?

Can you talk about this?

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I read where you have a passion for and  advocate for rural development.  Can you share your thoughts. 

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What was training like in South Africa?

What has training been like in the US.

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Why did you want to be a doctor?

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What are some of the campaigns and initiatives you have worked on? In Africa and US.

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Your advocacy work?

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Tell me about the work of your NGO?

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Your philanthropy work?

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I often find while doing Wikipedia articles that people are in need of  an extensive oral history documentation. I think that it is important that people are a part of the creation of their source documentation.

When  I first started doing Wikipedia articles, and learning about people and talking with people I would write a list of questions specific to that person. Many of the people I wrote articles about in the beginning were Elders. Many things about their life and history they had not thought about or talked about in years.

Early Life.

Where were you born?

Your fondest memories of your mother.

Your fondest memories of your father.

Your childhood.

Early education.

Growing up.

What was adolescent life like?

Your parents influences.

What were your best friends like?

Thoughts about the  community you grew up in.

Extended family relationships. 

Influences.

What were some family values? 

Your thoughts about life and struggle.

Being a mother.

Your passions.

Your loves.

Your community involvements.

Your country involvements.

Your global involvements.

Your UN involvements.

Family.

Friends. 

The global struggle as you see it.

The African Diaspora. 

Your thoughts on Africa that you would like to share. 

Your thoughts on the West.

Projects that mean the most to you.

The future for women.

Unity and women.

Global unrest and women

Women's relationships to each other.

Women's relationships to men.

The work that needs to be done in your opinion.

The work that is being done.

Your accomplishments.

Your community accomplishments.

Apartheid. 

The wounds not healed.

Education for children.

Education for youth.

Education for women.

Education for men.

Education for communities.

The elderly.

Empowerment.

Health.

Your thoughts on feminism and African women.

Your thoughts on advocacy.

Your thoughts on violence against women.

Man's inhumanity to men.

Women's inhumanity to women.

Your thoughts on war.

Your thoughts on peace.

Your thoughts on the environment.

Your thoughts on democracy.

United Nations instruments.

What makes you happy.

What would progress look like for you?

I found a list of credible S African bloggers. We can submit source material answered questions (data).

Talk about people you have worked with and known so that their stories can be told thru your story.

Your work with the youth, the rural women  and urban women.

Male female relationships that work and do not work.

Tell me about your journey in becoming a doctor.

What was it like being a doctor in Africa and your training?

What is it like in comparison to being a doctor in the United States?

You have worked with a lot of campaigns and started campaigns. What are they?

Most of us that live in Western cultural societies know very little about forced marriages.  Can you share your thoughts and experiences. 

Marriage for love. Your thoughts.