Bashiru is a new generation of liberator, a social entrepreneur helping inspire and offer skills training to people enchained by both their criminal mistakes, and their self-doubts, fears, and difficult life journeys. Still a young man, this book traces the author’s own entrepreneurial story so far, a narrative tale of passion, persistence and vision, starting in his National Youth Service year in Nigeria, then to a life-changing social entrepreneurship school in India, a learning program in Zimbabwe and Rwanda, and then back again to Nigeria, where Bashiru continues to lead the work of his Dream Again Prison & Youth Foundation. Transforming troubled lives with learning, Bashiru’s inspiring public-private, human-centred partnership model to equip prisoners to “escape from prison” with courage and faith, as well as trade and entrepreneurial skills, gives hope not just for Africa, but the world
