A memoir · First edition

Who Builds in the Storm? You Do.

Where the rain never ends. A boy from a market village in Nyeri, the grandmother who raised him, and the lesson that has held ever since: you build inside the storm.

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Every young person building on the African continent
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Seven chapters and a letter to every founder
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From the prologueThe rest of that page is in the book.

The rain in the highlands of Kenya has a way of teaching you patience. It doesn't fall softly, it insists. It carves its own paths through the red soil, turns the roads into rivers and beats on tin roofs until every thought in your head must learn to adapt to its rhythm.

It begins in Kiamariga.

A market village in Ruguru Ward where the red soil turns to river when it rains and the market still opens on Tuesday no matter what you are grieving. Loss came early. So did my grandmother's lesson: a storm shows you what you are made of.

From there it runs through a classroom with cracked walls, a long walk to school, and every room I have built since. It is written. What is left is getting it into your hands.

  1. 01First off the pressYour copy comes out of the first print run and ships before the book reaches anyone else.
  2. 02Straight from the deskThe occasional note as it goes to print: the cover, the launch date, where to find me.
  3. 03You size the runReservations decide how many copies get printed. Yours is one of them.

Inside the book.

Chapter oneLoss, pain and the first test of resilienceKiamariga, a mother lost at seven, and the grandparents who stepped in.
Chapter fourFirst entrepreneurial steps, building in the rainEighteen years old, a second-hand laptop, and a studio named for owning the rain.
Final reflectionsA letter to every founderA note to every founder who keeps walking when the road gets hard.

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