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Why African founders bear weight of bad system
In Africa, we place the full liability of national progress on individual backs and then wonder why our companies do not scale globally, why our talent burns out, why our brightest minds relocate, why our innovations remain early-stage forever.
Every morning in the savannah, a gazelle wakes knowing it must outrun the lion. Every morning, a lion wakes knowing it must outrun the slowest gazelle.
But every morning, the African founder wakes knowing they must outrun both the predator behind them, the opportunity fleeing ahead, and a system that often hunts the very people trying to build it.
