Bishop: A Renaissance Man of Creativity and Inspiration

 

Name: Omogolo Pikinini 

Stage name: Bishop

Home village: Shakawe 🇧🇼

Place of residence: Bethlehem, PA, USA 🇺🇸 

Age: 24

Bishop is a senior at Lehigh University, studying a BS in Mechanical Engineering and BA in Philosophy. In his time away from his studies he is an independent hiphop/rap artist, certified life coach, writer, debater, professional public speaker, renowned community leader and activist. He also does theatre acting, stand up poetry, plays college volleyball, soccer, and a former chess player amongst other things.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How do you do all these things and how do you manage to stay motivated? 

"There is no one thing I can point to, to say this is how or this is why. It is a deliberate and delicate balance of all aspects of my life, with discipline and confidence being my highest qualities. I'm confident enough to try and not be afraid to fail. And I'm disciplined enough to keep trying until I cannot fail; I do everything to mastery. 'Bishop If you don't intend to be the best you can ever be at it then why bother start?' I always ask myself.

Another big factor is that I've always had a bigger purpose in my life. My goal has always been to inspire many young folks from where I am from. I made it my life mission to live for others, and use my story as an account and record of a life of a mbukushu kid who dared to dream. I want my little sibblings to see that there is a world of possibilities despite the conditions we were born and raised in. That a young mbukushu kid from Shakawe can be amongst the best in the world at anything. Perhaps that explains the thousand random things on my resume😄. At one point I think I was just going around doing everything I can get my hands on to prove a point [crazy I know]. But like I mentioned I didn't do any of those just to tick a to do list, I genuinely put my heart and passion into everything I do and try master my crafts.

If there is any takeaway from my life is to strive to be your best. The goal is to break your personal best with every attempt and eventually your Personal Best may become the new world record."

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