KING NGODA | A.M.D.G.

#InThisDecadeIWanna.... - travel with my wife - create wealth - start a family - build a portfolio of brands through my agency - speak to young people throughout Africa - prepare to lead – at Harare, Zimbabwe

This week's essay is about fatherhood across some very loosely defined eras, it's just intro a series of thoughts I've been toying with for some time now. Have a read, share your thoughts, every contribution adds to the growth. Thanks. Link: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

This poem is for the one whose ambition is real and whose exhaustion is real, who refuses to choose between them. He may recognise himself. He may laugh. He may keep racing the sunrise either way. Send it to him anyway Here: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

This week's essay is about the difference between a reputation managed and a character lived. And why only one of them is worth passing to your son. Link: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

This week's poem is for the man who used to talk about all the things he was going to do, then went quiet. It's also for the one who refuses to accept that his best is behind him. Link: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

This essay is the last in a series you probably didn't even realise I was writing. It's about permission. Have a read: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

This week's essay is about the part of himself every man is taught to leave behind when he grows up. And what it costs him when he does. Here: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

A poem for the man who has never once failed to deliver. Who showed up, put his head down, and did the work. Who was called capable and reliable and sharp and never once heard the thing underneath all of that. He knows what it is to be estimated. link: afewgoodfathers.substack.com…

This week's essay is about the most dangerous confusion a man can have. And how I lived inside it for years without knowing. You can read it here: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

I'm about 3 or 4 days away from completing the next essay in this "series". But so far this one has performed the best. Thanks to anybody who has read and shared it. I'm really glad that it's resonating.

Hi. It's me again. This week's poem was written from that space where the voices in your head have to bring you back to life. When you've gotta slap some sense into your own self. That was me a few months ago on a really hard day. Still, we move. Link: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

This week's essay is my attempt to honestly answer a question I've been avoiding. What does it actually mean to transcend your father ? Turns out, it means something I wasn't expecting. You can read it here: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

This week's poem is for the one who prays hard and listens for nothing. For the person who has mistaken waiting, for wisdom. Link: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

A little late, I know. But here it is. We are not called to servitude. We are called to service. The distance between those two words is everything. On black tax, boundaries, and raising a son to know the difference. Link: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

This poem is for the ones who wired money home last Friday and told no one. Who didn't call it sacrifice. Who didn't call it anything. Who simply did what the people before him did, because that is what you do. This poem has a name for it. open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

I was invited to a men's gathering yesterday, to share my perspective & to learn from others. This piece captures what I shared, in short, a man learns to lead others by first deciding who he is. It goes live at 23:30 but do subscribe now. HERE: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…

I forgot to drop a poem last week. So, before I share my latest "essay" . . . I'll let the poem loose. This one is for the person who is good at their job but dead inside it Who has learned to perform competence while something in them goes unmet Here: open.substack.com/pub/afewgo…