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The Audacity to Build

A Manifesto for Africa’s Next Generation of Builders

Foreword by Chief Bisi Akande, CFR

The Audacity to Build by David Opeyemi Oke: black cover with the title in red and a close-up of an eye

Most people spend their lives waiting for permission or the perfect time to build. Builders don’t.

They see a problem and take responsibility for solving it.

This book is a call to think beyond yourself, build what outlives you, and become part of a generation that transforms Africa through purpose, courage, and service.

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With a foreword by

Chief Bisi Akande, CFR

Former Governor of Osun State

About the book

Africa is not poor. Africa is unbuilt.

In The Audacity to Build, David Opeyemi Oke tells the personal story of how an ordinary boy from Ila-Orangun became a builder of people, institutions and movements across Africa, through courage, sacrifice, faith, leadership and resilience.

It is more than a memoir. It is a call to a generation that refuses to inherit excuses and chooses instead to build the Africa it deserves, because the greatest thing you will ever build is not a company, a platform or an institution. It is people.

Written for

  • Entrepreneurs
  • Students
  • Public servants
  • Educators
  • Policymakers
  • Community leaders
David Opeyemi Oke smiling, in a navy suit

About the author

David Opeyemi Oke

David Opeyemi Oke (DOOKE) is a trade and development leader, institution builder, speaker and author. He is Vice President of World Trade Center Lagos.

He founded Equip Africa and the Club of Emerging Leaders for Africa, a community of more than 10,000 emerging leaders in 17 countries, and convenes the annual Emerging African Leaders Summit.

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The future will not be built by spectators.

It will be built by builders. The only question is: what are you building?

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