A Perspective Interview with Natasha Taneka – Session 3
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Natasha Taneka (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/05/05
Now, we’ve talked about your personal life a bit with regards to parents and grandparents. You grandparents being feisty. You being of Zimbabwean heritage with a lot of Canadian cultural influence. In addition, your father’s scientific background in mineralogy, the science of mineralogy, with the PhD from the University College, London and your mother getting her PhD in America and specializing in human resources management and the arts. With all of this in mind, some things do come into the line in inquiry here with respect to your general perspective. What is your general philosophy in life? What are your general ethical guidelines for personal and professional life and so on?
I would say with my sort of life philosophy as I gotten older it’s always changing and I do things that I have been given, or what I have learned, and that I have been given permission to change. I think the background with Zimbabwe we have witnessed a lot of changes, and this could go for a lot of people, at least politically and directly in my lifetime. My grandparents grew up at a time in Zimbabwe under colonial influence during Ian Smith, when they didn’t have access to certain jobs, and then they had children who were able to get a really good education and leave the country, and by the time they came back. Zimbabwe was independent.
With every option that came up, whilst everything was changing, my parents always went with the philosophy of ‘to go for it.’ I think…that chaos…in the community. So, they seem to be.. interpreted…there’s always opportunity in chaos, and I think that in the way my parents had family. Other things can change, but there’s staying in touch in the world. You’ll make it through.
My philosophy has been to always remember that with one or two things everything can change and it can be okay… that is one of the most empowering things that one can do. It’s going to come and that’s what I’ve done with my life. I went to Canada to do my BA and then I decided to do my MA in New Zealand and then I fell in love and moved to England.
I picked up from that and came settled in London…I never am shy for change…procurement and…and for my benefit…my priority has been making sure that…
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