Cost of Rising

History remembers the men who conquered. It buries the ones who tried to set their people free.From the halls of independence to the fields of the Global South, a generation of leaders dared to imagine nations that belonged to their own people. They built schools and fed the hungry. They reclaimed what had been stolen. They said no to empire.And one by one, they were cut down — by coups and bullets, by debt and slander, by the quiet hands of powers who profited from their failure.The Cost of Rising traces these leaders and the machinery, foreign and domestic, that destroyed them. It asks the question every free nation must face: why is it so dangerous to do good? Unflinching and deeply human, this is a reckoning with those who paid for hope with their lives — and a call to finish what they started.