 Welcome back to the YouTube channel to boy Mr Ghana Baby and I'm back again with another interesting and dedicated episode here in Accra Ghana but today we are in the studios of Diaspora Network TV. The owner of this TV station was born in Ghana, left to the United States of America and came back to establish this beautiful studio here in Ghana. So you know what as you always do we travel to get interesting stories so that it will inspire you but hey today I've been star up by my own sister this is called the water my jacket hey please do me a favor go to my sister's instagram go get one of this tell her that what am i i told you to order one of this i look cool in this shed right amazing but hey it's your first time on this channel please do me a favor subscribe and be part of this awesome family let's hit 500 000 subscribers hi amaiya follow me let's talk to the CEO finally good to see you good to see you the privilege for me to see you for the first time and i really want to know your story first of all i know the people watching us don't know who you are tell us your name and where you from oh the name is uh germany in chroma okay i'm from yashanta reading kumase uh offensive to be specific left gana yeah the way well it's a long story actually you know as a club dj at least guys they go abroad they come to my club have the time of their life and so you also want to go i mean you're young exactly you know i'm saying exactly to my first stop ended up being nigeria nigeria i want to first destination and from nigeria to where you came germany oh you didn't come back to gana you went to nigeria actually did actually did you know um i don't know how old you are but in 1983 there was what they call aliens compliance order uh you see the gun the bag gana must go yeah that's where most of the ganayans pack their stuff so that's where we came gana must go so i came back during that time and then i think a few months later i was actually getting ready to go to london and the homeboy did it to me again roland's did a buggy that shot the the price of the flight from my car to london from 6000 to 41000 wow so that that right there so they had to fly back to nigeria yeah i actually went by the road wow yeah then after nigeria when did you go to nigeria i went to germany actually went to germany through eastern europe eastern germany eastern east berlin across the border for this track see you know the berlin wall it was still up but i mean germany eventually wasn't for me either because as a political refugee you couldn't work you can't work you just stay at home they feed you they clothe you but i want it to work i actually got a job as a dj it's to god i played one night they loved it the us soldiers came to that club they loved it and so the guy was gonna hire me pay me some good money but when he asked me what's my working papers i couldn't produce it i was so devastated so i decided no i can't stay here so i figured like i wouldn't get to united states wow how long did you live in united states often i got there in 85 and i started coming back with a settle manager resettle manager and i started the fall of actually specifically november of 2011 or by 2012 i was fully here not fully you never even now i'm not fully here because i get here i stay here about three months my wife and kids are still back there so i still have to shoulder between like i'm trying to find out like how long from 85 till now yes yeah 85 till now but the last eight years i've spent more time in gana than i have in texas okay going back and forth let's talk about your experience in america and if you if you should describe your experience living in america what are the things that you're going to say i mean the pros and cons living in america as a guardian man or maybe as a black man living in america it's that's an interesting question is he over there life is much easier no matter what they say when you put it all together it's easier you're driving on express road in houston we have like 26 lane road 13 going 13 coming and you can floor it when i mean floor it you can gas it up where you're doing about 100 miles per hour and hope the police is not looking and you don't have to dodge potholes when you flip on the light the light comes on no questions that's when you turn on the tire so you don't have to deal with a lot of these things but on the flip side you have to deal with crazy cops that we're now seeing whose sole mission is to go out and kill blacks on the other hand you also have to deal with people bosses who never see anything good that you do no matter how your numbers say okay if you are being evaluated and 70 percent of your evaluation is on objective metrics that one he can't cheat you but at 30 the remaining 30 percent subjective metrics they can hurt you no matter how clean this place is they can tell you oh your place is dirty because that 30 percent is how he calls it so he can hurt you with that whereas he can go to a place of work where your colleague of a different race and you see what this place looks like and he's getting higher marks okay when you see obama comes in does excellent job doesn't get any credit trump comes on and he's riding the wave of the obama economy yes i said it he's riding the wave of the obama economy and now they you think that he he built that economy that's the story of a black man in america are you trying to say that in america they see like from your own story you try to say that they see black men as inferior or something well i know they do i know they do that's where the term white supremacy comes from and so when you say something is superior it sounds to reason that the adab ones are inferior but i have a different opinion i think it's about time that we blacks started talking about black supremacy and i'll tell you why maybe you haven't heard that term before but black supremacy is crying from the fact that if you put people in slavery put all these impediments these disadvantages in their way and they're still able to rise above it to accomplish some of the things that they accomplished and why you didn't tell me they're inferior do you think if the playing field was level in america where nobody right now white people are starting to talk about white privilege if the playing field was level in america you would see what blacks are able to accomplish in america but the playing field is now level and so i just i sit here i truly believe in well it's not a popular thing to say but if other people are going to call themselves superior we have every right to call ourselves superior because of the things that we go through on a daily basis and we're still able to rise above to to still move ahead you know like the main reason why i came here is because of your tv network that you're working on right now what really inspired you to start something like this you know uh i think you have to take you back a little bit because when i was on cameos campus okay as grown up as a child the peace calls american peace calls and i think you wouldn't know but it's a program that president kennedy put together so the peace calls will come we're going to interact with them and i looked at americans like because you see american pictures and everything so when you finally see africa you know americans in person said i want to go there so bad and so eventually when i got to the states two years after i got there i actually put together i produce a record called home sweet home if you need it because two years after being in america it dawned on me that they are no different from us they really are not in fact i have a statement and some american friends don't like it when i say it but i say americans are as dumb and as smart as we are so they think it's an insult i mean insulting us so it with the in short in america you find the dumb and the smart in gana you find the dumb and the smart so they can build their countries like that who are you to tell me that we can't build never like that so starting 1987 i've always believed that we really have something here and that is incumbent upon all of us black people both continental africans who have left to go live in the diaspora and africans were born and raised in the diaspora african-american the srinamees in netherlands and i think there is some black group in australia and all those all these people are africans peter torch says as long as you're a black man you're an african and this continent is for us so we need to come back and really set it up and so i when i got the license to put together a tv station i could have called it any station but i chose specifically diaspora network television because if you look the diaspora has a vast network this group here this group here this group here i believe africans we need to at some point could be an individual do this here and put it all together because this continent is really something is really something we got the desert we got the forest we got everything here and we got the brains don't let anybody tell you differently we got the brains but you know what somehow we haven't been able to put together a system to put it all together so that we can develop this place you know you live in the diaspora and i know you definitely have friends and family who are still living in there and i got a lot of africans living in the diaspora watching us right now so i really have a question do you think that it's worth it for africans living in the diaspora to come back home and invest in the continent just like what you've done because some people feel like when they come in here they're going to lose money you know so from your own point of view you're doing something in here i know you live there and then you came here to do something i want to know do you think it's worth it for an african diaspora to come to the continent and invest this money in any business in the continent let me give you some numbers very very good question let me give you some numbers in 2019 ghanaians abroad their remittances to ghanai was three point three billion dollars that is the amount that the world bank is able to track meaning bank transfers money grabs western you don't know that but you and i both know that the amount to when somebody is getting on the plane and somebody says oh just take these three thousand somebody will meet you at the airport to collect it right that money is not recorded exactly okay now we did our own poll that's from network television we did our poll and our poll tells us that all ghanaians abroad 29.9 percent use informal means of sending money home which means put money in the parking lot and everything so if three point three billion dollars represent seventy point one percent of the money that comes in simple maths tells me that the diaspora remittance for 2019 was actually four point six billion dollars so i think four point seven billion dollars now think about that for a minute this is money that came in for which nothing in that you know natural resources like except of course the the human resources that like fine where they didn't take gold out they didn't take cocoa out just this money that came in now mind you when someone is sending money to come home maybe pay salaries or help with the mothers this is not all the money that they have in other words it probably ten percent of their earnings that end up coming home and not all ghanaians send money home so when you look at 210 million people of african descent all across the globe and we every country we send delegations go to china go to italy go to all these places and beg for money we have low hanging fruits we if you set up a diaspora bond and i i live in houston oh i have a hundred dollars i'll buy one this one lives here we buy one we get more money we don't have to go and stand in front of anybody to borrow money and guess what that hundred dollars that i'm bringing home if you give me even five percent return i'm happy why because there is an intrinsic satisfaction of knowing that my money is helping to develop my country that same hundred dollars that you went and collected from the people of other races they bring in the hundred dollars in and they want about two hundred dollars in return because when they troop in here to invest they're not coming for free they come in to invest and take more money out so either way you slice it africans who are in the diaspora in fact let me put it this way i dare say this on a per capita basis the 210 million africans who live in the diaspora have a higher purchasing power than the remaining 1.2 billion that live on the continent why do i say that because you have precedents that make equivalent of four thousand dollars a month precedents on this continent that make four thousand dollars a month in america if you make four thousand dollars a month you really struggle okay you have people that make six figures the hundred two hundred thousand dollars a year so africans have that money out there not only that we also have resources and then we bring something else to the table we interact with our people on a daily basis so if i'm sitting at the table speaking with an american we're negotiating when the american blanks his eye i know what he means when he scratches his nose i know what he means why because we know their body language africans who live on the continent who have not lived with them they don't know these things and so we bring in much more than the money the skills we bring in much more all we're asking and this is what diaspora and television is all about all we're asking is the continent should take advantage of this diaspora that's all however you do it whether you have to make some concessions do it because we make concessions for chinese and white people we wrote the red carpet for them and they're bringing in a hundred dollars to take 200 back but you will not rate wrote a red carpet for your own kind who's bringing in 100 and will be happy to take ten dollars back i don't get it and so at the end of the day we africans have to really look in the mirror and say what are we doing is a diaspora a threat that's why we make it difficult maybe we need to look at that and those that are coming are they too conceded are they pompous that's what we need to look at but at the end of the day there's two sides need to sit down and figure it out because what is going on around the world if you have dead bodies of black people washing up on the Mediterranean shore in europe there are blacks being killed in america there are blacks being ejected in china and we sit here in this fine with us just because we can take extra two million dollars to go and put in a swiss bank account what are we what are we what what kind of people are we because i'm telling you that if i'm white if i'm a white man and you i'm dealing with you i see so much poverty around you in your country but you managed to take five million dollars that i know you did not earn and you come and put in your personal account i'll never respect you why should i so for me yes the impediments are there but that's another thing that gets me if we sit down so the whites are doing so and so to africa the chinese are doing so and so do you think the chinese have us spent one minute thinking about oh what are the africans going to do to our lab do you think the american or what are the africans going to do they don't think because we never play offense we're constantly playing defense and people are we always playing victim of people are going to do something to us no we need to play offense sometimes however we do it i don't know but this business of always playing defense so they're doing this to us i don't mind that i think at the end of a day it's within our hand to grab it and so far we're not grabbing it so far you're not grabbing it so um you know what i just wanted to before i let it go i just wanted to send a message simple message to the african in the diaspora not just ghanians but i know all of them you're watching right now so just a simple message to them what would that message be that message is this africa is your home there are constraints when you want to come back or look back and by the way we're not saying everybody should come back no it's virtually impossible because we know africans have built their house their lives there but look back about looking back means let the issues of the constantly concern you if it's open you can open some business here have somebody run it or keep it close and these days of social media you're really not to when i leave here and go back to houston for the time that i'm there i'm still able to run this place and so i want africans to start to look at their continent as home and nobody's going to develop it for us if people tell you or we're giving you aid it's a long strength attach and so come home you will face problems but i'll guarantee you the same way this is actually this is actually it this is this is interesting when i left to go to united states i had no idea where i was going to sleep i had 20 dollars in my pocket just 20 but i took that chance okay look at how many africans take that chance fly into a foreign line not knowing what to expect but we take that chance but when it comes time for us to come back home where we're familiar where we have family where we have old friends we think though it's too risky i don't know what to expect hello well i mean i feel like we don't actually believe in ourselves and we don't believe in what we have that's all these things are happening that's what i've noticed yeah because we might end up going to another country just like you're saying and survive with just 20 dollars but coming back here to survive within 100 dollars yeah yeah you said oh i'm not sure uh the things the rules have bad but when you were going you knew you were going to find problem do you know how many people have actually got to united states my old brother he came and sometime he said hey is this america i said no you haven't reached america yet you know i see because you go to these places with stars in your eyes but when you get there reality hits you in your face but then you have to navigate through all those problems and make a life for yourself why can't we do that when it's time to come back home and we say that um we know we're gonna have problems but the good thing is these problems you're already familiar with them so you know how to navigate with them this is where your port was cut so you know them come back home and everything before i let you go find our message can you tell us how we can find your tv network and how we can show wherever we are very good we are on the multi tv platform and we're currently present in gala and african about 24 african countries we are working on getting on several platforms because right now we're truly global and so for the rest of the continent we reach them through social media but not for long we're working on an app that would eventually be able to put broadcasts and it will sit on our own server so people will be able to watch us on on their on their mobile device but for now our website www.dntgala.com and social media handles youtube facebook twitter instagram all right i just wanted to thank you so much for talking to me and by the way you you do not understand the job yourself thank you so much i appreciate your time i like how you show in africa in a way that to make people like you need to come home yes yes you're doing very good all right thank you