Bogopane Bogopane

Gutted to learn about the liquidation of the @dripsportif brand. This is not the time to pontificate about what @lekausehoana could have done better or where it all went wrong. Only he can tell that story. It's HIS(s)tory. There are not many who have taken the entrepreneurial road less travelled that he so boldly took to start a brand that challenged non-African brands in its category. There are not many people who've dared to start anything; to create a worthy business and jobs, nationally. Of course there are lessons learnt. Of course it's sad that the business has been liquidated and jobs lost. But his guts have not been liquidated. His ability to rise, fall and rise again have not been liquidated. His pioneering spirit has not been liquidated. He is not the first anywhere in the world to start something and have it go all wrong. In building the Drip brand he inspired other young entrepreneurs, the 70% of the continent that's under 30 years, to do something, start something and be something; rather than blame the system. Failure is not final. It's an opportunity to start again. Wiser. As Theodore Roosevelt once put it: "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."