Dr. Christian Happi

And I believe that once you believe in something, you got to work hard to demonstrate that actually that belief is real and it's correct.

I mean, any obstacle that you actually come across, you use that obstacle as a stepping stone actually to move higher.

That's a bit of what characterized me, where each obstacle actually make me more determined

I think people that know me very well, they will tell you that the best way to slow me is actually not to put any obstacle in front of me because then I think it's easy.

But then if you put obstacle, then actually you basically catalyze, you actually just make the best out of me.

Oh, yeah.

I grew up in Cameroon, a very rural place in Cameroon, in a place where there was a lot of malaria as a disease.

I lost a lot of friends when we were young because of malaria.

But then I was one of those survivors.

And I do believe that at the age of somewhere around eight, nine, I suffered one of the worst parts of malaria that I've ever suffered.

I was so sick I couldn't stand, I tell you.

And my mom carried me in her back and took me to the hospital.

It was run by Catholic nuns.

And I met one of the nuns who was a doctor, and then she diagnosed me for malaria.

And then I was given an injection, which was quinine at the time.

But my mother carried me on her back and then took me back home.

Got to a point, and then she was tired.

And she said, well, she needs to rest her back.

Of course, she put me down.

I couldn't stand.