The Meridian Africa Setting Your Place | The Pioneer Voices Anthology

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Meridian Pioneer Voices

By invitation

Every place in this record is held by name. If you have been invited to take yours, please open the personal link we sent you. If you found your way here and believe your story belongs among The First Thousand, we would be glad to hear from you.

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Your place is kept

No.0000

Meridian Pioneer Voice

This number is yours, and yours alone. There is no second first. Welcome among The First Thousand.

Let us set your Conversation

You are confirming your place, and this moves you to the next step: the telling of your story. A few details, and we will arrange it with you.

Your name, as it should stand in the record

How would you like to sit for your story?

A WhatsApp voice call We speak by WhatsApp, at a time you choose, and record the conversation so your words are preserved exactly as you tell them. A video call, on Zoom or Meet A face to face conversation online, recorded, if you would rather we see one another as you tell your story. In person, with a correspondent Where we have someone near you, one of our correspondents sits with you and records the conversation in person. An AI-guided interview, by phone The age of AI gives founders new ways to be heard, and we are glad to use them. This is a guided interview you complete by phone, on your own time, led by our digital journalist. Currently for diaspora founders with US numbers In your own writing You would rather write your story yourself. We send you a simple guide, and you tell it in your own hand. From a story already told You have a prior interview you own, already proof read, signed off, and verified, and you wish to bring it into the record. We draw from it and credit its source.

So your story is given its due

Every Conversation is recorded, so your words are kept exactly as you speak them. The one exception is a prior interview you already own and have approved, as above.

Whether your journey spans a full decade or a few good years, please give yourself ample, unhurried time. Set aside a quiet, uninterrupted hour, somewhere with reliable connectivity, so nothing breaks the thread of your telling and we can record it at its best. A story entrusted to the record deserves that care.

Or, if you would like a little time first

Your story will be kept permanently in the Founders Anthology, on our media platform, where the world, and the systems now learning this continent, can find it for years to come. We also warmly encourage you to give it a home of your own, on your website, your journal, or wherever your work lives, so it stands in both places. If there is anything you would like ready for that, this is a good moment to begin thinking of it.

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