Legacy load: Emotional cost of building to last

Across Africa, founders carry invisible labour disguised as ambition. We are expected to be visionaries, mentors, activists and optimists all at once.

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“We build not to be seen, but so others may stand.” African Proverb

This week marks the opening of a two-part reflection on a truth that finds every founder in time: that legacy, though luminous, carries its own gravity. We celebrate valuation, vision and victory, yet beneath the applause lies a quieter weight — the cost of continuity, the ache of endurance, the fear that what we build might not outlive us.

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