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IDDRIS SANDU, THE ULTIMATE 23 years old Tech GENIUS! Describe as t he digital architect changing the landscape of tech, Ghanian born Iddris Sandu's teen life will shock you. Look at the profile of a man who declined an offer to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology twice in order to be a change agent for African-American culture. At age 13, he was an accomplished programmer, he was discovered in a library by a designer from Google who got him an internship at the Tech Company. He was reading texts about the theory of relativity and studying the German industrial designer Dieter Rams. At age 14, his name had already begun making rounds in the tech and political cycles he designed an app to help students at his high school find their classrooms easily. Here he received Presidential Scholar Award from President Barack Obama. At age 15, he was hired by Twitter to do data analytics. At age 16, Instagram hired him At age 17-18, he was a consultant for Snapchat At age 19, Ub...

DR. OLUYINKA O. OLUTOYE, MD, Ph.D .: Is a Nigerian Physician, who carried out a delicate surgery on a 23 weeks old foetus who was removed from the mother’s womb, operated upon, and returned to the womb to heal and continue to grow until the baby girl was born at 36 weeks healthy and naturally. Baby Lynlee Hope suffered from a tumor known as Sacrococcygeal Teratoma. According to CNN, in 2016, Margaret Boemer went in for a routine ultrasound at 16 weeks that revealed a rare birth defect. At 23 weeks, she and her baby, named LynLee, underwent a five-hour fetal surgery. Dr. Olunyinka and Dr. Darrell Cass, co-led a team of 21 doctors to remove a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a large tumor from the baby’s tailbone. To safely remove the tumor, the surgical duo removed the baby from the uterus for 20 minutes. Then, they placed LynLee back into the womb for the remainder of the gestation period, after which she was born healthily. Following his role in a groundbreaking surgery, Olutoye was appoint...

TERESA WANJIKU NJOROGE:  Beyond the bars, Never Again! Teresa served time between 2009 - 2011 at the Langata Women Maximum Security Prison accompanied by her then one-year-old daughter. Her first-hand experience of prison, the desperate plight of the women and girls she met behind bars, and the revolving door of crime and poverty she witnessed inspired her to devote her life to the equipping, empowering, and preparation of imprisoned women for the precarious journey of reintegration into society. After her release, she met with the Director of Rehabilitation and Welfare of the Kenya Prisons Service in 2013, and here the magical Clean Start Kenya was born. This is an organization, that works with women and children impacted by the criminal justice system to help them restore dignity and hope for successful reintegration into society. But here is the story Up to 2008, she is a normal banker, a city working lady who wakes up every morning to beat the traffic to her place of work. ...