{"id":8516,"date":"2026-01-20T07:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tafafricaglobal.cubereach.org\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:53:33","slug":"taf-the-builder-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/taf-the-builder-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"TAF the Builder Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8516\" class=\"elementor elementor-8516\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-609fa0ee e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"609fa0ee\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ad2fc49 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ad2fc49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p>The launching of \u201cTAF The Builder&#8221;, a blockbuster book depicting the inspirational life of an African living legend Mustapha Njie symbolizes the longstanding African tradition of passing down knowledge through story telling.<\/p><p>The book which was launched yesterday in The Gambia tells a story of how Mr. Njie, who started as a carpenter, made it big, building great cities across Africa. He has recorded his life journey as inspiration to the younger generation.<\/p><p>The event was packed with fellow Africans with great experiences. One among the many brilliant deliveries which highlighted the day was a marvelous speech by Anna Buttner, founder of Fyen Network, the institution which published the book.<\/p><p>Anna recalled a time in her life when she was pregnant and was in search of an \u201cAfrican Princess\u201d book in a US bookshop for her yet to be born daughter. To her utter surprise, she could not find one. She felt disappointed; however, she channeled her frustration into something positive.<\/p><p>She took the advice of her mum to write an African story book and she came up with the now popular \u201cPrincess Halima\u201d book which told a unique African story. She toured schools to read out the book to students.<\/p><p>The positive reaction and interest from Black diasporan community encouraged Anna and her team to work on several other African books with the result being a whole publishing firm.<\/p><p>Her approach to the initial frustration has been rated positive and impactful. Instead of merely ranting, she chose to provide a solution.<\/p><p>By Richard Kwame Krah<\/p><\/div>\n        \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing you need to do is sit down and set your goals. Diana Scharf Hunt said \u201cGoals are dreams with deadlines.\u201d A lot of times, people are thrown off by the idea of taking the time to set their goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8521,"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/8521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heysearch.ae\/tafafricaglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}