Are you an African engineer, a designer, a researcher, a product developer, an entrepreneur, or just a creative professional? Ditch your mainstream approach to thinking up innovative ideas for new products which most often defaults to copying Europe and America? Embrace the world of possibilities in multidisciplinary and multicultural insights. In this book, author and software engineer, Ugo Eze argues quite compellingly that African cosmology represents such a world. Indeed, to excel in today’s competitive world, the African has no choice but to return to their ancient roots and learn to combine their native wisdom with contemporary education. That’s the unique space representing their competitive advantage in the world.

Zero To One is perhaps the most important book for any African student aspiring to become an entrepreneur. If you think this describes you, then you must read the book - and I dare recommend - not just once, but, at least, twice. As the least technologically advanced continent in the world today, Africa stands to be impacted the most by 21st technologies and opportunities. In this book, author and billionaire tech investor, tells, albeit indirectly, how to achieve this, namely by 1) thinking for ourselves, looking intentionally for secrets, and 3) being authentic to ourselves and ignoring competition.

Do you feel disadvantaged in life? In this book, Ryan Holiday offers a practical approach for turning trials into triumph. Drawing from Stoicism, he drives home the point of Marcus Aurelius: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." Could that problem you're facing be an opportunity for your self-improvement?

For every African, the most basic aspect of their education must be “Africa 101. As an African, the most basic aspect of your education must be “Africa 101." You must ensure that it empowers you to understand how a world system that has fed you, the African eagle, with chicken feed works, and then change it for a better world for all. Without Africa 101, no Harvard, Oxford or MIT-level education can save you from the “shackles of the mind holding us back as a people.” You must ensure that your education empowers you to understand how the world system that has fed the African eagle with chicken feed works, and then change it. Without Africa 101, no Harvard degree, Oxford degree or MIT-level education can save us from “shackles of the mind which are holding us back as a people.”