‘In the world where you feel imprisoned every day emotionally, financially, mentally and spiritually, nothing is as heartening as realizing that the prison was you’. This is just a glimpse of ‘The 4 Genius Windows’, a book revolving around its subheading ‘discovering why you don’t know what you don’t know’, written by two young Rwandan minds Eric Niyitanga and Frank Rubaduka aged 22 and 27 years, respectively. The duo described their book as “transparent accounting of their broken backgrounds, family hardships, poor education, and efforts invested in self-education, which are just among issues young people go through as well. In the book, they also touched on their honest account of their faith on a test, temptations, career mistakes, aspirations, and inspirations. “We wanted to talk about a memoir of our past and a blueprint of our dream lives. A big picture of what African blood can achieve on the global market,” said Rubaduka. According to the authors, the book took them about four years to get published. In the process, they often got discouraged and felt like they would not arrive at the finishing line. “When we were in the course of writing this book, I got an insight from a force I could not identify, telling me that this book is going to be a tool to enlighten my children. It is going to create a movement for the next generations to depend on and it is going to be a platform that the future of humanity will feed on,” added Rubaduka. Besides being educational, the book also engages the readers by asking psychological questions, as they go through the pages of the book. “We believe that we have accomplished what seems to be impossible and more by doing all that work during COVID-19. And despite the difficulties, we still aimed higher, meaning that any young person out there can still do the same,” cited Niyitanga. The book was edited by an Australian editor Johanna Craven. One of the book’s contributors, Tim Kreutter the Founder and MD of Cornerstone Development Africa, an organization that provides scholarships, mentorship, and global networks to the African young people said; “It makes perfect sense that everything you need to fulfill your mission is within you. It lies dormant at the level of your soul – like your spiritual DNA. This, according to him, is similar to what the authors call “your inborn genius seed”, and the book is unequivocally going to be the authors’ wake-up call. Currently, the book is available on Amazon.
