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Edzai Zvobwo selected for the 2018 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme #TEEP2018

Zimbabwean born mathematician and author, Edzai Conilias Zvobwo, affectionately known as “The MathsGenius” has been selected as one of the 1 250 entrepreneurs to attend the prestigious Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) programme.

Zvobwo made the cut out of 150 000 applicants from 114 countries globally who had applied for the 4th cycle of The Tony Elumelu Foundation’s TEF Entrepreneurship Programme.

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33. Concept of home and family?

“Home” is not a fixed thing to Edzai. It is amorphous and something to be carried around with you. You infuse others with that feeling of being home and they become your family. He thinks that it is an experience of the Dalish soul. Their people have been wandering for so long that home and family are no longer fixed points. Even for the clans that have settled, there is the constant understanding that home is something more than a mere place; a physical thing can be snatched away by human hands. Keeping it inside means that it is forever untouched.

42. Hobbies?

He likes watercolors. He’ll paint anything with it. Stones, bare tree trunks, other’s people’s skin. He also loves writing horrible poetry with too many similes. He’ll paint it on your skin if you let him. It’s disgustingly adorable.

48. How do they express love?

Often, but quietly. Little kisses on the forehead, cheeks, or hands if it’s platonic. Additional ones on the chin, jaw, or ear if it’s more than that. He believes in saving kisses on the lips for special moments. He’s a terribly sentimental person.

If you tell him your interests, he will never forget and any time he hears or sees something related to them, he’ll pass it on to you. He’ll listen to you talk about whatever you like best for as long as you want, and he’s a good listener.

50. Is this person afraid of dying? Why or why not?

Anyone who says that they are entirely unafraid of death is lying. But the streets of Llomerryn aren’t kind and he has had enough people he’s known die very suddenly. He’s made peace with the knowledge that someday, that will be him. And that’s the most anyone can do.

Ooh, this one’s tough. Let’s go with Edzai, who I don’t think I’ve mentioned before.

17. Regrets

Edzai’s clan lives near Llomerryn and has frequent contact with pirates. They often coordinate to some degree, as it turns out that the Dalish are VERY good at smuggling things (a holdover from when his clan wandered Chantry lands and needed to protect their sacred artifacts and mage children) and the pirates can offer them goods that they can’t get themselves.

During one such arrangement, Edzai’s clan was attempting to smuggle some drugs into Llomerryn on behalf of some pirates. One of his clanmates, wanting to break away from this life, stole a portion of the drugs to sell on his own. When the drugs were delivered and some of the product found missing, the entire clan was held accountable. Edzai attempted to smooth things over and offer collateral while the theft was investigated, but tensions were high, he wasn’t able to ease them quickly enough, and a skirmish broke out, resulting in deaths on both sides. The thief was mortified at what his actions caused and tried to offer the money he got from the sale to his clan in reparations. The money was refused and the man exiled.

Since then, Edzai has been haunted by his failure and it’s given him the exact complex that has landed him right in the middle of Solas’s web of agents, acting as the ultimate middleman, coordinating everyone and enabling communication that might otherwise be fraught by conflicting views.