From the South to the Deep-South: The Importance of Connection | Gugu Selela | TEDxClemsonU

What happens when the first leader you know is not a president, not a professor, not even someone with the title, but a woman standing tall in a world that told her to bow. for her head. That was my my mother, pregnant in the apart, South Africa, unmarried and at risk of losing her job, facing whispers, shame, closed doors, and the fear of survival itself.And yet every morning she rose. She carried me before I took my first breath and carried our community long after. You see in the '9s during the heights o ...