 You all know that Africa is not perfect, and if you guys have a chance to change one thing in Africa, what will it be? When we go out there, I'm sure you've also experienced it, like we are told we are from Africa, we are not told we are from Kenya, but we are from Africa. So I think if we would have a language which we can communicate like Swahili to be a language that only Africans understand. I think that is something that will be very special. Second, I don't think I need a visa to come to Ghana or to any African country. Like, let Africans be free to travel within Africa without complications. Imagine Africa speaking in one voice, we would be a formidable force, you'd be surprised. There are resources across Africa which we can be the force that before you talk to us, everyone would be getting a visa to come to Africa. And you know, most of the people from the other side, they don't require visas to come to Africa, but as we require visas to go their countries, if I am told to change Africa, I would make Africa one united Africa. Language, resources, everything. And from there now, we move forward as one formidable force of Africa, united state of Africa. Good morning from Nairobi, Kenya. Listen, when you are visiting this country, always carry a sweater or a jacket. Because when I was coming to this country for the first time, I never knew how super cold this country can be. It's seven o'clock in the morning and I'm freezing. That's why I just water, I just heat my body up. But hey, this is one of the most beautiful and serene estate that I've ever seen. And I wish I could buy a home in here. I'm not here to talk about myself. I'm here to talk about a family that has built a billion dollar empire out of travel and tours. This is something that I never thought it's possible, but Africans always try to make that impossible possible. Listen, I'm that guy on a journey to celebrate every single African. I found myself in the East, here in Kenya, Nairobi, a suburb in Nairobi. And I'm here to tell you guys about Bonfire Adventures. Who are the people behind it? My name is Simon Kabu, Chairman and CEO of Bonfire Adventures, which is a Kenyan leading tour and travel agency. My name is Mrs. Sara Kabu, Managing Director of Bonfire Adventures. The company has been there for the last 15 years and we are proud to have maintained the lead for the last 10 years. Do you know that this company is the leading tour company in the whole of Eastern Central Africa? Believe me or not, I was blown away when I found out about them. And I know and believe that their story is definitely going to blow your mind. I'm in their neighborhood right now, this is where they live. That's a Range Rover, man. The life of the rich. Okay, it's not a long cruise. I think I'm ready for this video. You know what, it's 7 o'clock, I hope they are awake. I'm just going to wake them up, whether they like it or not, they have to talk to me. Because it's my first to share stories of Africans to inspire other Africans. Come along with me. I'm in the spirit even though it's so cold. I'm in the spirit. I'm in the spirit. I'm in the spirit. Today we are supposed to be with Ademai, I don't know if he's arrived. Hi. Hello, I'm good. Good to see. I love your estate. Welcome home. Welcome. You guys already know something? Yes, we are going for a jog. Yeah, I can see you are very beautiful I think I was thinking about a good time Because it's public opinion here Oh really? It's so cold in Nairobi so I decided to put on a jacket If you guys agree now, why don't we work out together? We work out together late first start It's called the sharpshooter What is it called? That vitamin shoot Yes, we take some juice so that we can proceed Wow, welcome No, it's okay, don't come in I know you are from the car Yeah, so welcome home Okay, are you ready for the joke? I hope we are not going that far I can only do 6,000 steps Just have Just have 5 km Let the real jogging begin First time Jogging with Billionaires I think I've made it in life I've made it in life Jogging with Billionaires I need to tell my mom that I jog with Billionaires He has to be in Guinness Book of Friends My mom will be super proud of me You go systematically You don't over push yourself Okay If you want to reach far you go systematically Like now the way people say success is not a one time event If you just run you get it very fast But you walk briskly until when you are fit enough to start jogging and you progress until if you are doing 2 km you continue doing 3 5 or 6 Will you say that is the idea behind your building a successful business That's one of the idea because what we do is that we are normally very patient the 5 piece, the persistence the passion all that combined How long did it take you to build Bonfa Adventures to this day 15 years we recently celebrated our 15th year anniversary during the end of the party Okay Now you guys get it Success is not built in a day It's a morning routine Not every morning that we do the jog We do the jog at least 3 times a week Occasionally Sometimes meetings don't allow us But we try also to do swimming To the gym D for the day What do you admire I hope my people served you already No Today we made a feast for you You know the last time you came and announced So green or yellow juice This is orange The green one made me hungry That's the motive You see in our culture we normally say a good husband is one who eats well because he has to work to get food That's the point because we are like hoteliers We have to mix both African and western We can take I really want to tell you guys something I really love the connection and the vice between you two It's more like that's the kind of relationship that I want And you know Sometimes people normally say that it's so difficult to build a business with your wife My question would be how did both of you met and from there I want to know how is it like to run a business with your wife I think she has to pick how much of you met because women are good at answering that question Yes, I can allow her how we met You can talk about how we met You can talk about the business first We have memories We met for the first time on 1st December 2007 So we were both in an online forum of young professionals Most were job seekers or looking for better jobs That time they were called google groups and yahoo groups We joined with the name of getting better jobs in the group because they would share job vacancies there But then people started discussing politics So we were in the group I I Simon among other people we were among the most active We have dormant members in a group and active members So he used to like the world made contributions in the group and I also used to like the way he would make sub contributions in the group There are some people who just go to the group to just cause fire So he is the one who could cool the fire and everything So I liked the way of contributing in the group So at the end of the year after elections people thought that it's good we meet and know each other because we just know each other by the names and profile photos So they selected us to organize the getaway for people to meet So we organized we still hadn't met but on the day of the trip is when we met for the first time I guess it's the best movie you've ever made in your whole life I agree and you see that particular time we had not even started a company and when we did the first we were with some other people the organization was being Sarah and some other few people like a committee of like 5 people like a committee then we posted the when we went to the first time we met we were told the guys who missed the first one said we organized the second one and we went to the same place we organized the second one we went to the second one we posted the photos on facebook and people said we still need the third one so during the third because it was just a free thing we were not charging anything imagine the dedication the sacrifice to organize for people without even adding anything then the third we found me and Sarah the other people had just retired they had gotten tired of organizing the third one and it was during that particular time someone from a corporate asked us can you guys do team building we said yes we can do team building so we found ourselves me and Sarah organizing a team building for a certain corporate so we organized a team building and they said they will not pay us until we deliver so they didn't pay us at first then that particular time of payment because they would pay us through they said no no we are a corporate we can only pay to a bank account and using a check we only had our personal bank account they said we cannot pay to a personal account so that prompted me and Sarah to open a company that was Born for Adventures and how the name came about I remember that particular time because it was before Easter we wanted to now because people were asking us where else do we go so we said we would go to Masai Mara with Sarah to check where people can go for Easter that finding mission when we were in Mara at that particular time that night I remember there was a bonfire and a lady who from that corporate now who was paying us asked us that's the time we had that conversation where do we pay the money which check do we write because we had cleared the name that the time we said what might bring us to Masai Mara again there was bonfire and that's how the name Born for Adventures came about doesn't mean that at that time you guys were not married or were you dating at that time you were not even dating okay he was making his moves but I was not yet sure what year was this that was 2008 2008 to 2009 so you guys were working as friends from a group a team and after that we started now because of now we didn't have an office we didn't have anything we were working in me was from Masai Mara and she was an office admission account me used to travel a lot within Kenya as a sales person so we didn't have an office but I had a brother who had a small desk in town he was not using it he told me why can't I rent out this desk for you one desk so the desk used to cost us 10,000 shillings per month and that's where now we started I had a laptop and that's how our business started 10,000 shillings only but that's like 100 dollars after now we only started working together our friends started asking us where else do we travel to so we used to that desk she used to come because she was very near her office place was near our office our desk so she used to come over lunchtime and maybe come in the evening so that we meet our friends who wanted to travel now we started staying in the office together I started looking at her now the rest is history one thing led to another one year of courting from 2008 2009 where we got married in June 2009 after 2 years how do both of you feel right now in terms of how far you've come it's this song that seems like we made it you know it when we were during that journey we would say in Kikuyu we say Noko Geria Kenyan we were just trying it was not that serious we were just trying but then it happened we are not yet there but we would say at the moment we are beyond our we even didn't dream to be here so we are beyond our dreams now we are now having to re-dream our life again because we are now living beyond our dreams still now we cannot be at comfort zone we need to re-dream our life again yes we always hit our targets maybe that particular time our target was to have this then we achieved that now what next we put our target here so our target was to be maybe we achieved there now we progress on and that is what keeps our life busy because it challenges us always or I go to the question that I really want to ask so for how many trips have you guys organized for people uncountable uncountable maybe roughly like a thousand trips a month yes a month you can count now the number of months for the of course for the first year the fifth year it wasn't like that so we have not done our calculation yes but we thank God that we are now billionaires club officially whoa a round of applause for that you are now billionaires yes that your company is now making it worth billion you see before I dive into that let's go from how is life growing up because I believe that there are so many people sitting in their various houses watching this video where I am at the moment will I be able to reach this far just like the Kabul family so let's go back a little bit before bonfire growing up in Kenya how is life first I would like to tell you that person who is watching this video you are as big as your dreams what you just need to do is just to wake up and chase your dreams it means if you just sleep you just sleep on your dream but wake up and chase them you can dream anything I grew up from a very hard background going to school without shoes if you check my legs and carrying the ash because it was not cemented we used to carry ash those days because of the jiggers you carry ash and sprinkle and some water eating cold food sometimes not having food at all but I had a dream to that particular time I passed very well from class class 1 to class 8 I used to be in position 1 except class 6 which became position 2 and I cried very much so I used to be a bright kid then from there progressed to a provincial now national high school then I went to the university my business acumen started when I was at the university I went to Egerton University and when I was there I used to I used to show people to screen some movies for people that's the business I used to do even the people who have first low Egerton they already know someone I used to have a branding called Kavidio to show people the videos after that I left the university I went to I was employed in a sales job where I used to work like 18 or 19 hours a day a graduate working 18 or 19 hours a day because I wanted to gain experience too and that's where now my luck started but before that at one particular point before starting the movie job I used to be a tout I don't know whether you know the matter to tout that's what the job I used to do here in Nairobi it's called Route 44 Ghidorah I have done that I started as a tout I graduated to be a driver but because I didn't have school fees at one particular point and my parents could not support me so I had two options one to drop out of the university or to come out of the university look for fees and go back and complete my education I opted for the latter I came out of the university for one year then came and looked for school fees as a tout and later as a driver then I went back to school and completed my university I got up in a Christian family in Embo County that is in the Mount Kenya Highlands in a family of eight I'm the seventh born four girls, four boys I did a lot of courses in college I was not sure what I really wanted to do I did a diploma in IT I did some accounting I did some business administration most of these courses I would start and not finish but finally I found myself settlement in the tourism industry so it's always good to know your purpose early, know your passion what you like doing and which career that can connect with so that you start following your passion early so at here how was your meeting the meeting was good the school is very excited and we of course won it was tough competition we were about five competitors but we won the group they have promised to do the check on Monday so they'll be going for the world scholars have you heard of world scholars? I love the fact that both of you go for different meetings but one common goal how was yours by the way mine was a different kind of a meeting it's a bigger business which I cannot have you done a game drive at Nairobi national park and you've come to Nairobi so many times when do you want to do it? I love that question he also became Matata driver I'm not on vehicle without passengers how does that make you feel? you see it makes me feel good and sometimes I know it's only too long but sometimes when I see you know the way people the Matata people drive other people think they are a little bit reckless but they have strong targets they have a lot of targets and that's why you have to do many of them so when I see them trying to cut in front of me I know this guy has some targets so I don't really put myself there I just give them the way what kind of target are you taking over? Matata people they don't have daily targets so whatever money you are supposed to take to the owner you can't achieve that tomorrow you will not be you will not be so when I see them trying to cut in front of me I know this guy has a lot of targets and to achieve your target you have to make a lot of trips the many trips you make the more you are able to achieve the target welcome to bornfire yes yes yes yes that time it was just two of you yes two years two of us when you enter this office and you see a number of people working for you guys how does that make you feel