Let’s draw parallels if Steve Jobs were a Kenyan. He did call the Intel CEO when he was 12 years old, explaining that he had a technical invention that he thought would be of help to the company. And the Intel CEO bought into his idea, and gave him a space and lab and equipment to bring his ideas to light. Let’s fictionalize how the conversation might have gone if he were a Kenyan.
So, let’s assume that he is Mc'Dubious here and the Intel CEO would be a CEO of a telecommunications/media company.
here is how the conversation would play out
Mc'Dubious: Hi, Sir, I’m Mc'Dubious. I have an amazing technology that I believe would be of help to your company.
CEO: And where did you develop the technology. Who helped you?
Mc'Dubious: No, I developed it myself, after the school classes.
Mc'Dubious: Yes Sir.
CEO: Don’t you think it would have been better if you had finished school and then bring up the idea when you are through with school.
CEO: Listen, young man, or boy, finish school first, and then we’ll talk when you can come with the appropriate qualification and papers.
Mc'Dubious: But won’t you give me a chance sir, just to demonstrate it?
Mc'Dubious: But, but…but….
And the dream would have died like that. And young Mc'Dubious would have been subsumed into the system, learning to adopt and stay afloat and twenty or thirty years, is a creative ghost of his former self.