Africa didn’t fail because it lacked talent, intelligence, or effort. It failed to scale because it didn’t document. For decades, Africans built, survived, resisted, and adapted — but rarely wrote it down. No blueprints. No case studies. No shared memory of what worked and what didn’t. So every generation starts from zero. This episode breaks down why documentation is power, how history gets controlled by whoever holds the pen, and why Africa’s next leap forward depends on recording its own wins