FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 15, 2025
Media contact:
Jean Narcisse Djaha, PhD
Phone: +1 703-200-4022
Email: info@jeannarcissedjaha.com
Virginia Beach, VA, USA, May 15, 2025—longtime global social innovation champion, engineer, and architect Dr. Jean Narcisse Djaha and Chief Entrepreneurship Magazine Press have released The Next Young African Hero, a groundbreaking book to help young leaders get a deeper understanding of their Circle of Impact and leverage it as a comparative advantage to realize their full potential. The book is on sale now via Amazon and other major international retailers.
In The Next Young African Hero: Maximize Your Circle of Impact, Dr. Djaha challenges young leaders to grow their understanding of the more significant impact-making ecosystem and the most meaningful transformation they can make with their circle of impact and array of talents. He contends that with a strong command of our Circle of Impact, we can create a clear present for ourselves and build our desired future for our children. In challenging times, our Circle of Impact illuminates our path to victory. At every stage, it glorifies us.
The Next Young African Hero draws on many success stories and examples from high-impact leaders such as Thione Niang, Stanislas Zeze, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, who reached their full potential by mastering their Circle of Impact. In a world of constant challenges, the fight to conquer our Circle of Impact must be thought of every day.
The Next Young African Hero offers a new impact-making approach for inspiring young global leaders, emerging social entrepreneurs, and the next generation of leaders to pursue their dreams with high ambition, raise development aspirations, and realize their full potential in life. Jean Narcisse Djaha weaves together groundbreaking success stories, transformative insights, and examples from high-impact leaders that take the reader from success design to great success.
The Next Young African Hero indicates that success depends less on who you know than what you can do to change your situation. Success is not about what you are today—it’s about the tenacity you develop to position yourself to win tomorrow.
‘’What I have done in The Next Young African Hero is to lay out the foundation of a leadership tool that will inspire many young leaders and scholars to go after their dreams, craft potent purposes, and make it happen because they can ‘’, says Dr. Djaha about his book.
Several renowned global thought leaders and authors have proudly endorsed this book as a motivational and life changing for current and future generations of leaders. These endorsements include the following:
“You will be tempted to read The Next Young African Hero to learn the path to success. Dr. Narcisse does not disappoint with his many practical, real-life examples. This book is about much more than success, however. It is a guide to leading a life of significance. Africa—like the rest of the world—faces challenges that can only be met when a new generation of leaders use the lessons in this book to inspire and guide lasting change. Jean Narcisse is on a journey to transform the future. The Next Young African Hero is your invitation to join him.” – Randy Pennington, Author, Advisor, and Top 30 Global Guru on Corporate Culture
‘’Great leadership is not about where you begin—but what you choose to do with what you have. In The Next Young African Hero, Jean Narcisse Djaha shows young leaders how to turn purpose into power, and ambition into action. This book will echo far beyond the page—it will shape lives, elevate communities, and spark lasting change.’’ – John Spence, one of the top business and leadership experts in the world.
‘’Young African leaders will be a key to the positive change in their communities. Jean’s ideas based on both solid research and personal experience will give these future leaders ideas and actions to fulfill their potential. Their circle of influence, growth mindset, integrity, small wins, and local commitment will become skills for their success.’’ – Prof. Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; Partner, The RBL Group
‘’The Next Young African Hero insightfully and inspirationally provides a foundational set of moral and ethical, leadership, personal development and emotional intelligence principles to guide the career development of social and business entrepreneurs to “change the world” for the greater good, one person, one organization, and one nation at a time. Each chapter provides the reader with case study examples of successful African and other relevant international leaders and social innovators, elucidates the essential and vital character virtue lessons for enduring human flourishing, and reinforces the importance of developing collaborative networks of peers, mentors and sponsors to support effective change efforts. Dr. Jean Narcisse Djaha has provided a valuable resource to help shape the present and next generation of social innovators to promote a more just and prosperous world and the well-being of humanity made in the image of God’’. – Dr. Gary E. Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Government, Regent University
This book, The Next Young African Hero: Maximize Your Circle of Impact, could not have come at a better time. This is a must-read book to encourage young leaders to have big dreams and give them a deeper understanding of their Circle of Impact in today’s complex world full of challenges.
About The Author
An Ivorian and high-impact emerging entrepreneur and social innovation thought leader, Jean Narcisse Djaha is the Chief Entrepreneurship Magazine Press’s outstanding Global Publishing Director, Founding President, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Council on Foreign Relations & Globally TED Global CEO.
An accomplished Global Publishing Director, God-gifted prominent author, and a highly acclaimed visionary young global leader, social innovation architect, and rising influential global diplomat on a mission to inspire and empower the next generation of young African leaders to work toward their dreams and the shared vision they all have for Africa and the world, Dr. Djaha is the author of six books, including The Next Young African Hero: Maximize Your Circle of Impact & From Values to Values: How Values Create Value in Social Innovation.
He is an outstanding long-time champion of social innovation thought leadership of our time, and a world-renowned expert in entrepreneurship ecosystem systems change, geopolitics, and international relations.
A highly acclaimed young visionary leader, Jean has educational backgrounds in political science, international relations, international business and trade, journalism, government, corporate strategy, applied intelligence, and political theology. The Next Young African Hero is his fifth book.
For more information about Dr Djaha’s book, to inquire about a review copy, or to schedule an interview, please contact Jean at 703-200-4022 or info@jeannarcissedjaha.com
The book is now available for sale via Amazon and other major international retailers.
