WELCOMING MELODY-FAITH P. OMBOLI TO THE OMBOLI’S UNIVERSE OF MASTER’S DEGREE HOLDERS (THE O-UNIVERSE)

AFTER EARNING HER MASTER’S IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (LL.M.) IN 2024 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC!

CONGRATULATIONS, Melody for earning your Master’s in International Law as you promised at your high school graduation about a decade ago. And you did it once again with splash and “panache” – the Omboli way – by scoring an A for your research report.

It has been a real privilege to watch you deftly navigate the challenging transition to the Canadian secondary education system from the Gabonese one over ten years ago. It was a real joy to see you earn your bachelor degree with honors from the International Development and Globalization program with a minor in Communications at the University of Ottawa with a „Magna Cum Laude” distinction.

We are overjoyed to witness your successful completion of graduate studies at this prestigious university while maintaining a casual employment in the federal government. We are pleased to see you evolve into an amazing lady eager to take her proper place in ecosystems that appreciate you, value your contributions and celebrate your results.

Above all, we applaud your innate audacity to turn impossibilities into opportunities and dreams into realities. We are proudly bowing to your constant adherence to tenets dear to our unique Patriarch, the late Antoine Omboli, who instilled in me the sense of equity, the duty of work well done and an intrinsic Love for Learning, Life and Laughter for a Legacy of Humility, Humanity, Honor and Harmony across communities we care to join.

With this tall order accomplishment, you have become a full member of the Omboli’s Universe of Master’s Degree Holders (The O-UNIVERSE) in my footsteps and those of your older sister. The O-Universe will propel you into orbits that amplify members’ pride in Our African Identity and optimize Our capacity to catalyze both the change most people want to see happen and the transformation most communities deserve.

The O-Universe strives to bring the best out of every member and encourage everyone to blossom into the best versions of themselves. To that end, we will summon ancestral bench strengths and leverage their spiritual vibrations to further knowledge advantage and best collaborative actions benefit. We will ultimately foster practices that prioritize our personal care, preserve our individual saneness and optimize our contributions to greater social equity, human rights, equal justice and prosperity for all.

So keep on pursuing a remarkable career in public service and displaying the appropriate character grounded in our core values of Faith, Friendship, Family and Fellowship as well as our life principles of Humility, Honesty, Honor and Harmony.

May the Almighty bless you abundantly and sustain your intrinsic beliefs in Respect, Responsibility, Resilience and Reconciliation as well as Courage, Compassion, Gratitude and Generosity to ancestral legacy advantage and societal heritage benefit.

Your Dad Eugene Omboli, M.Eng. on behalf of all who supported and assisted you along the way.