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“It’s important to have role models, role models that look like you and representation matters, for it gives hope and courage to pursue one’s endeavors.

— Adji Bousso Dieng

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We want to rewrite the history from our perspective, and not the perspective of what we read, which is often negatively biased towards Africa.

We tell stories from our own perspective with the goal of inspiring young Africans, and in the process, educating the general public.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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