Book Launch

Discover how a poor boy from Africa came to believe that a poor man is just a rich person without money: Gabriel Kengni, Ph.D., CCIE, NBCT announces publication of ‘From Nothing to Everything’ ---------- SILVER SPRING, Md. – “From Nothing to Everything: My Pathway toward Excellence” (published by Lulu) written by Gabriel Kengni, Ph.D., CCIE, NBCT is the story of Kengni’s life growing up in Africa and the challenges he encountered. Kengni was born in 1962 into a polygamous family in West Cameroon at the junction of western and central Africa. At the age of four, his family members started passing him around, and he began working at age seven. Everyone expected him to stop going to school because there was no money to pay tuition, but he continued on. Everything changed after he passed an exam that paved the way for him to go to a public high school. After graduating, he attended college in the neighboring country of Gabon before moving to the United States to continue his education. In sharing his story, he reveals what it was like growing up in a polygamous family, how by the “grace of God,” Kengni was able to surmount his challenges, how the Bamiléké people in Cameroon select their kings, and how he took care of himself and his younger brother while still in elementary school. Instead of chapters in the book, Kengni uses bridges to mark the transition from one period of his life to another. “The bridge is the key in this book because, if I had failed to cross even one of the bridges, I wouldn’t be who I am today,” Kengni says. “From Nothing to Everything” By Gabriel Kengni, Ph.D., CCIE, NBCT Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 186 pages | ISBN 9781684703357 Softcover | 6 x 9in | 186 pages | ISBN 9781684703364 E-Book | 186 pages | ISBN 9781684703340 Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble About the Author Gabriel Kengni, Ph.D., CCIE, NBCT, is a proud Montgomery County Public Schools educator in Maryland and a professor of mathematics at the University of Phoenix. Prior to becoming an educator, he was a telecommunication engineer with the World Bank, TimeBridge Technology, Pulsar Data System, UUNET and MCI-WorldCom. He earned a doctorate in computer science and information technology, is a Cisco certified networking expert in telecommunication and networking, and has a national board certification in teaching. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and children.