“When I look around me, I realize people need education and motivation to change their lives for the best,” says Nana Diaby, an entrepreneur and the first-ever female Malian television talk show host. Diaby, also one of 500 participants in the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, came to this conclusion after witnessing the 2012 Malian coup d’état. She aspired to build a better future for new generations of youth through dialogue on her talk show, Phiphi. As a consequence of the coup, Mali was left in a state of collapse – resulting in sanctions by surrounding n