Thought-provoking. Simple but fathomless. Teddy Warria’s I Am From reads like an introduction whose end is separated by lifetimes in between. The book goes at length to paint a bigger picture of Warria, a man whose DNA is found all over the world and who can only be characterized as a scene full of imprints and impressions.
Warria says that he was inspired by one Joe Mucheru, Google company’s first employee in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a piece of craft woven by people, time, and experiences that he’s been lucky to document—a Luo, a Kenyan, an African, global citizen, a child of the universe, and only time will tell what else. He is perfectly sticky in the hands of Life, the porter, who continually changes his form, but also solid enough to remember dala, home, where it all started.
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Warria is free; fluttering around the world like a leaf in the desert, collecting and leaving gold dust in his swaying. He embodies everything of the future, especially for Africa, a continent that, no doubt, carries the past and owns the future, if Africans rise.
“Who are you?” is an easy question but is it? Like Ophelia says in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.”
Warria’s I Am From is a cue to ask, “Who am I?”. In addition to being a tribute to his late parents and everyone who has influenced him this far, it is a book that speaks to his personal and professional life.
Warria argues in the 36-page book that businesses must move from ideation to concrete development phase where the chosen idea is refined and implemented. He is a true entrepreneur and leadership coach who is establishing a connection between the local and international markets; working to mainly solve the employment and youth leadership challenge.
“I am the one who cracked the Code of MIT, without paying a bribe, and opened the doors of Wall Street wide open for Kenyans,” Warria notes in I am From book. “I am now a Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Mentor.”
Warria believes in telling African stories because “Africa is talking business. “I am telling Africa’s Talking stories as the chief story teller,” he says.
But what are the crux of “I am From?” Is it providing insights that are not in the public domain? Find out!
Like Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet would say, “This above all: to thine own self be true.” That self that lies at the core of your story.
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