Chi Yvonne Leina Today I celebrate you Girl Child!!!!!!; loaded with potentials, graced with beauty, petal that embellishes our world, you are a gift! Ngum, Chioma, Nabila, Epole, Shade, Shaniqua, Lupita, Chelsea, it doesn’t matter where you are from, you are beautiful! As a mother of nations, I bless you with every motherly blessing. I stand at a spiritual crossroad to bar the way to all arrows of oppression, subjugation and discrimination targeted against you. I purge the earth of any force that is holding your potentials bound. I came to earth with a specific assignment that concerns your freedom. Until you are free, I will not be free! Girl, you are the world’s greatest untapped resource, not gold, mineral, oil or gas! I have a dream, a dream of a world where no girl child will be left behind because of her gender; where knives shall be loosed and drums rolled to celebrate and not mutilate our girls. Where no girl child will have to fearfully and helplessly watch a man b...