Who controls your mind?
That question was put to a group of seventeen-year-olds at a Forward Africa Education Trust workshop in Rwanda — and it sparked quite a debate.
The questioner was Dr Stephen Gene Morris. After the group offered their various answers, he brought things back to something simple and powerful: “You do.”
Consider this: two friends invite you to hang out and share a Fanta. But you have an exam tomorrow. Do you go — or do you stick to your plan and study?
No one else makes that call. Your mind. Your choice.
It’s a small moment, but it’s the kind of thinking we try to build in young people through FAET — the understanding that they are the authors of their own decisions, whatever their circumstances.