Happy Herman and Diarra Niang are the co-founders of Bakame AI, a voice AI platform that delivers education through ordinary phone calls, no internet required. Built for the 3.1 billion people in the Global South who have a phone but no reliable connectivity, Bakame is starting in Rwanda and thinking at continental scale. This is the story of how a boy who got his first computer after COVID ended up building something that could change how an entire generation learns.