I reject the idea that in order for a story to be marketable or feasible, it needs to come from the Western protagonist’s perspective.
Chad deeply valued his privacy, and I wasn’t privy to the details of his illness. After his family released their statement, I realised that he was living with his illness the entire time I knew him.
You can kill a freedom fighter but you can’t kill freedom,” declares Daniel Kaluuya echoing the words of Fred Hampton.