15 girls. 15 stories. One book. We outlast.
The Moments We Carry — published August 15, 2026 — is the first book by The Outlast School. The school is the infrastructure behind it.
A three-year virtual leadership academy for African girls. Year 1 they publish a book. Year 2 they mentor the next cohort. Year 3 they pitch their own venture to a Founders Circle for seed funding. Author. Mentor. Founder. Three years.
The Outlast School is a three-year virtual leadership academy where every African girl becomes an author, a mentor, and a founder.
Africa has never had a shortage of brilliant girls.
What has been missing is the infrastructure that looks a girl in the eye and says: your story belongs in a book. Your voice belongs on a platform. Your leadership belongs in rooms where real decisions are made.
The Outlast School was built to close that gap.
Not through charity. Not through rescue. Through reclamation. Through intention, curriculum, and a commitment to the long game.
The Moments We Carry
Fifteen girls. Twelve in Nigeria. Three in The Gambia. Ages 15 to 19. Ninety days to write their first book.
Aisha ran for student office with sweaty palms. Mirabelle found a grading error only she could see. Brilliance turned down her teacher's offer of exam help. Fatima sat still as her father announced her parents were separating. Dorcas failed a grade — and her mother said four words that changed everything.
Fifteen first-person stories about the moments that shaped them. Written by the girls themselves. Sandra Kemayou opens the book with her own chapter — The Year I Learned to Hide — about failing 6th grade in Douala, Cameroon, at age 11.
Launches August 15, 2026 on Amazon. Foreword by Medinat Oyedele.
The book begins with them.
I write so the next girl doesn't have to start from nothing.
I want to build the school I wish I had walked into at twelve.
My grandmother was a nurse. I want to be the doctor she could not become.
I want to build the hospital my village did not have.
Every girl in my classroom will know her own name out loud.
I want our soil to feed us first, then feed the world.
I write the songs my mother hummed but never got to sing.
I want African girls to write the software the world runs on.
I am drawing the map my village has never been on.
I want the medicine in my district to actually reach the people.
I learned to ask for what I deserve. I want to teach my sisters how.
I want to design homes that look like us, not like somewhere else.
I want to speak for Africa in rooms that still ask us to be quiet.
I want to write our story before someone else writes it wrong.
I am building the company my mother kept dreaming about.
By 2030, we want to graduate fifty more.
Three Years.Author → Mentor → Founder.
Author
Tell her story. Publish her book. Run her cohort's launch as a team.
Mentor
Coach the next cohort. Teach what she just learned. Lead a small group of new girls through her author year.
Founder
Launch her own project — a second book, a business, a non-profit, a creative venture. Pitch the Founders Circle for seed funding.
Every girl graduates as an author, a mentor, and a founder.
Cohort 1
Fifteen girls. Twelve in Nigeria. Three in The Gambia. Ages 15 to 19. Ninety days to write their first book.
The result is The Moments We Carry — published August 15, 2026.
They wrote it. They are running its launch. This is not a model on paper. This is a cohort that finished.
Cohort 2
Applications open now.
For African girls between the ages of 14 and 19. Three years. Author, mentor, founder. The full curriculum.
I don't want applause for helping girls. I want infrastructure so they never need rescuing again.
The Outlast School is a 10-year build.
By 2035 we will:
Graduate over 1,000 girls.
License our curriculum across 10+ African school systems.
Train Certified Outlast Teachers and Mentors.
Launch an Outlast Alumni Fund and Mini-Hubs across the continent.
Host global summits and publish 200+ books written by our students.
And by 2080, Outlast will be more than a school. It will be a movement. A method. A mirror that reflects what is possible when we bet on African girls and build with them, not for them.
The Outlast School is built for the long game.
We need partners who think in decades, not quarters. To build a continent where girls don't have to leave to lead.