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THE WORK CONTINUES.
A record of the ideas, projects, conversations and decisions that have shaped a public life.
Alistair Wren's work has moved through entrepreneurship, education, community development and public conversation. This archive exists to document the work itself: what was attempted, what changed, what failed, what continued and what came next.
“The question isn't whether young Africans are capable of building. The question is whether we are building systems capable of giving them room to build.”
A speech delivered to an audience of civic and business leaders, arguing that the barrier to youth-led growth is rarely capability — it is the absence of systems built to let capability compound.
PRINCIPLE / 04
Good ideas become useful when they become work.
Explore the projects, speeches and decisions connected to this principle.