Meet The Founder

Welcome. I’m Tony Curtis Daniel.
Born in Demopolis, Alabama, raised in Washington, D.C., and called to community in Lagos, Nigeria—my life is a bridge between three worlds. I am a husband, a father, and a man in long-term substance abuse recovery. And more than anything, I am someone who believes that no man should suffer in silence.

I am a first-generation Washingtonian, raised by parents who came up from the Jim Crow South with calloused hands and unshakable faith. Hard work and true grit weren’t just values—they were daily life. That history didn’t come to me through textbooks. It came through summers in the red clay of West Alabama, where I learned that dinner sometimes meant killing chickens with your own hands, and that Ma’Dear’s truck patch was the life line of healthy eating and survival. Those early years shaped how I see people, how I listen, and why I serve. I carry with the lessons of struggle, and the quiet pride of a people who made a way with little and gave thanks for it all.

I see the work before me as a life assignment. From food insecurity to untreated illness, I’ve listened to the quiet ache in the voices of men across West Africa. Men who work hard, who pray harder, and who are often expected to carry more than their hearts and health can bear. They don’t need pity. They need presence. They need dignity. They need room to breathe and enough support to keep moving forward.

God has placed something sacred in each of us. I’ve been shown extraordinary love, mercy, and support through my own journey. Now I walk with others—to extend the same. This is the heart behind Hope & Hustle Africa Foundation, Inc.