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Let me know the country you are. Oh, wow, over 180 people just like the stream. That's amazing. But I've seen 290 people in less than one minute. You all need to like the video. It's very important. I realize that Africans don't like the videos, man. Let's change our ways. Like the video, 300 people. Whoa, you guys have really missed me. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Yeah? I'm waiting for 500 people before I introduce my guests. So if I don't get 500 people, I'm not going to introduce my guests. All you need to do is to help me share the video, post it on your social media handles. I mean, let's get started. I'm waiting for 500 people before I start the show. Talk to me, talk to me. Hi, from Ghana, Somali, USA, Gambia, South Africa, Germany. OK, Somali, we missed you. I miss you more. 348 people, 369, like the video. Yeah, like the video before I introduce my guests. Because what he's going to share today, I feel like you all need to get a piece of it. And I'm waiting for 500 people before I start the show. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, 400 people, amazing. But 400, and I only have 183 likes. No, can you like the stream? Thank you. If you just joined, like the stream. Like the stream. I'm waiting for 500 likes before I start the show. Welcome, how are you all doing? Let me know where you're watching me from. I've missed you all and I can't wait to be back on YouTube. I can't wait to upload videos. I've got over 50 videos waiting. Yeah, I've got over 50 videos waiting. I really missed you all. And listen, I appreciate each and every one of you. So I just want to say that welcome to the live stream. And our guest of today is a billionaire, man. Listen, you hardly get this. I've been getting a billionaire to come and talk to you. Even me sitting beside a billionaire makes me a billionaire. Who believes in that? Sitting beside a billionaire makes me a billionaire. We've missed you. I've missed you too. Oh my goodness. Look at you all. Listen, I don't want to keep my guests waiting. Don't forget to like the stream. And I don't know. See, my guest of today, for today, yeah, he's an entrepreneur. He has been in the construction business for 45 years. See, he's 65, but he's still young. He's the guy that, I mean, he's not even an old man anymore. He said I should call him a guy. So he's the guy who built one of the biggest estates in Nigeria. Can you all guess who I'm going to speak to today? Can you guess? Is he single? The billionaire is single. No, maybe I need to ask you about that. I need to ask you about that. Yeah, 45 years in construction. Yes, you're a billionaire. Hey, I'm not a billionaire. Mr. Nja, yes, we can. Taft, you guys are ready. OK, Uncle Taft. Mr. Fadango T. All right, so Uncle Taft. Hi. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Maya. Thank you so much. Stop calling me a billionaire. How does it feel like being a billionaire? No, no, I'm not a billionaire. Stop calling me a billionaire. So who are you then? I'm just a simple Taft. I am Taft. Listen, listen, listen. He's the most humble billionaire ever. I think I need to let him know where I am. I'm actually sitting on his table right beside him. This place, I mean, it's not allowed for so many people to see here, but I hear I am. But you're my son. You're adopted. Adopted son now, yeah? Yeah, yeah, so you can occupy the whole place, not only the desk, but you can take the whole office. You know, I've got over 500 people watching us right now. Welcome to the stream. And don't forget to like the stream. My name is Mr. Ghanibe. I'm the one and only annoying village boy from Ghana. And today we've got Honorable Mr. Mustafa Inja, Gambia and Real Estate Mugu who is living in the Gambia at this very moment, but he calls Africa as home and he's building across the continent. It's a tough. Welcome to the YouTube channel. Thank you very much, Maya. It's a pleasure to be on a platform with you. And also thank you for coming over to the Gambia. Thank you. Maya is my adopted son. I've been trying to get him into the Gambia since we met in Nigeria. And it's been tough, but finally we're here. And I'm sure you have no regrets for being here. Of course, you know, I don't even want to go back. Good, that's what Gambia draws to you. People think it's in the water. I mean, somebody comes in here for the first time, you know, and then stays here forever. By the way, do you know how tourism started in the Gambia? Unless you tell me. I'll tell you. For those who don't know, tourism was started by one battling hardening. Actually, our main highway is called Wacom Hardening Highway. He came to Senegal on a trip. He's Swedish. He was way back in the 60s. And then he missed his flight going back from Dhaka to Stockholm and decided to explore southern part of Senegal. So he took a car, going to southern part of Senegal. He missed his way and found himself in the Gambia. Really? And when he landed in the Gambia, he found that the beach is so nice. People so nice. Then he went back and just started binging Swedish tourists into here. And that's how tourism was born in the Gambia. And tourism in the Gambia is now a booming business. My big shout out to the hotel that I'm staying right now, Tamaladi. Tamaladi. Yeah, it's owned by an African, a Gambian, and... It's a partnership, you know, of Mahle, Sala, and yeah, two young Gambian and Omar Jawah. You know, we pray for them. Good partnership. That's the way to go. Partnership is the way to go. Mr. Mustafa, a lot of people in here don't know who you are. I mean, how many of you know who he is? First of all, let me know. How many of you know who Mr. Mustafa is? If you know who Mr. Mustafa is, type five, if you don't know who he is, type six. Let's see. If you know who he is, type five. If you don't know who he is, type six. Oh, I don't know him. Five, not me. Okay. I'm waiting. Oh my goodness, five, five, five, five, six, six, six. Too many six though. You know what? Too many six. So this is what we're gonna do. Since a lot of people in here don't know who you are, introduce yourself, tell me who you are and what do you do? My name is Mustafa Anjai, but everybody calls me Taq. Taq is short for my name, Mustafa. So when I decided to set up my business in 1990, I wrote a name that will be easily pronounced by anybody. Whether you are Chinese, Gambian, Ghanian, American, whatever, Japanese. I think everybody will easily pronounce Taq, T-A-F, not difficult at all. So I am in the business of construction. I did my apprenticeship in construction for 15 years. You know, when I was 18, all the way to when I started my business, you know, in 1990. Then I worked for international construction companies in the Gambia. And then in 1990, I set up my own business, started with first with construction, real estate business. And over the years I've expanded to seven other African countries. Whoa, I'm registered in seven, but very active in Nigeria and in the Gambia. And now looking forward to jump over to Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is my new darling. How many of you are watching from Sierra Leone? He's saying that Sierra Leone is his new darling. You know, I met you in Nigeria and he said you were a carpenter. How did a carpenter became a real estate mogul? I am a carpenter because that's my passion. I went to high school and I always tell people because they look down on hard skills. If I pursued my training and went to university, probably by now I could have got my master's or my doctorate degree. I have peers who's got their doctorate degrees or their master's degree. But I was very passionate about carpentery in high school and I had an excellent grade, you know, like a distinction in carpentery when I left high school at the age of 18. So immediately I was employed in the same high school in Gambar High School as a teacher, as a junior teacher. Then I went again to teach again in Lameen in another technical center as a junior instructor. So I just followed my passion and I loved carpentery. I loved working with my hands and that is how I got employed in an international firm to work as an engineer's assistant. And from there on, I just worked in construction and construction related businesses. So yes, I started with carpentery and I say this all the time because there's quite a number of people who are very skilled in technical subjects, but they look down on it and they will go and do something that is like the order of the day. If you are gifted in carpentery, you drop it because you feel that look, you need to be an economist. And that's not what your passion is. So you will not really progress in that. So I want to encourage if you have fathers watching, mothers watching, guardians watching, even those who are at a training level now that don't look down on your profession. But why do you think we look down on our profession in terms of the skills that we have? Why do you think Africans look down upon these basic skills that you need to succeed in life? Well, I think it's something we inherited from the colonialists. You know, they'll tell you, oh yeah, my son was to be a doctor. Oh, my son should be a lawyer. All these noble, these so-called noble professions, that's what we've been inherited. But these days, I mean, actually, the advanced world is suffering from this because some skilled personnel are even better paid than these noble professions, like being a plumber, an electrician, being a carpenter, a mason, some of them they earn quite a lot of money. And there's dignity in labor. If, yes, if you are passionate about carpenterly and it makes you decent money, why should you look down on it? And you can develop yourself. Remember, you can start as a carpenter, just like what I have done, but today here I am, who calls me a carpenter? Nobody. But I'm proud to say that yes, I started as a carpenter so that others will not look down on this. How many units have you built so far since you started your journey as a real estate developer? My business, I think I built about 2,500 units, 2,500. And I am looking at building a million. The business is looking at building a million over the next 20 years. That's why I'm busy, you know, trying to keep fit and be healthy. So I leave long to witness the end where we build a million homes. Mr. Taff, I've got so many young Africans watching me and you know what, I want to ask you, what is the secret behind your success? The secret. What are the core values behind your success? Well, there are many, but all the time when I get asked this question, I mean, I tell people that, you know, there are two things that you must do to be successful. And those are one, you must work hard. No pain, no gain. If you don't work hard, you cannot succeed. You don't only work for a certain set time of the day. Say you go to work at eight o'clock or nine o'clock and at four o'clock you want to go home. No, you have to put in extra hours. So you have to work hard. That's number one. Number two, you need to be honest. Because today we are losing that value of honesty. Honesty pays. It might take some time, so it might be long, but remember in success, there's no shortcut. There is no shortcut to success. You have to work hard for it. So if you work hard and you are honest, you've got the two main core values to lead you to be successful. So for me, that's my, that's something I believe in. That's honesty and hardworking. The two H. Are you guys writing something down? I really want you to guys write something down. We've got over 800 people who are tuning in currently. Do me a favor and like the stream. If you don't know who I'm with, I'm with Uncle Taff. I'm a real estate mogul from the Gambia and so far his work can be found in Southern African countries. And today I'm gonna have a conversation. We can go in depth of the conversation, but do me a favor, like the stream, and listen, I'm gonna open the show for you guys to also ask some questions, but I'm not done with my questions. Mr. Taff, let me know, yeah, what really inspired you to start a real estate development? What was the inspiration behind it? Well, the inspiration is that in 1991, I was on a program called EI in the US. EI stands for Entrepreneur International. So the Americans had this program where they will take young Africans in different fields, do a tailor-made program for them in the US. So with mine, I was attached to a developer in Las Vegas. So I worked with him and the company and I saw what they were doing. So when I came back, I thought, wow, I should be able to do this in the Gambia. So what I did was I didn't immediately start building and selling houses. I built some masonets, four masonets, and had them all well furnished and serviced. And then I started receiving rents of about four times the going price, the market price at the time. I mean, they were very contemporary, nicely designed, well furnished, and money was good. But then what led me to real estate development where I built units and sell them was in 1995, I think, I went to the US again on a program called Africa Day Program. And was at a reception party with the High Commissioner at the time in the US, or the Ambassador, Mr. Johnson, Gray Johnson, you know, Christian Gray Johnson is the name, he was my former teacher in high school. He just asked the question, I was there with some Gambians, we were all networking, and he just said, well, tough, you know, why don't you start building houses for people and selling it to them? This is because as an ambassador, I hear so many stories of Gambians who are sending money back home and they never get the houses dealt. So I think this would be a good idea. And then he said, you know what, it was a Friday. He said, if you don't mind on Sunday, I could open the doors of the embassy and then call people around, Gambians who are around, and then we just have a chat with them. So I came back home and that's how we started. I bought a parcel of land and built five units. By the time I know it was sold out. So that's how we started, from five I started to now trying to build. From five? The big numbers, yes. And now you're building the tough city which will have over like 5,000 homes. 5,000 homes. I mean, that's what we're building in the Gambia now. That's what we're rolling out in the whole of Africa. We don't build cities anymore. Cities, now you're building cities. Cities and micro cities, for good reasons too. So in the Gambia now, as the English saying goes, charity begins at home. So I'm starting with Gambia, with the tough city. The tough city is at 5,000 residential units, but not only residential. Technical problems? Yes. So just you all should hold on. No sound, can you guys hear me? Is it okay now? Is that okay now? Let me know. Is it okay now? He says yes. Is it okay now? Please let me know if it's okay. Yes, it's okay now. I'm so sorry. So sorry. Those who logged out, please kindly log in back again. So sorry for that. We had a bit of connection problem. Forgive us, this is Africa. And we are looking forward that some of you will come and invest in internet connectivity in Africa so that we won't be having these problems. These are the things that I keep on telling you guys. Come and invest in Africa. Invest in things that don't exist. And internet is a big problem. So if you have money and you think you can invest in internet, please come and invest in internet. And I will buy from you, man. I will definitely buy from you. Yeah, so I'm still here with Uncle Taff. Don't worry, I'm not done with my questions. So, yes, man, I did it so fast. I'm not done with my questions. Let me finish my questions and I'm gonna open it so that you all can come ask your questions. But do me a favor, like the stream. If you haven't liked the stream, like the stream now. Like the stream now. I'm waiting for you to like the stream before I continue the show. Like the stream. If you just joined, can you like the stream? Still lagging? I don't know. It's okay now, yeah? It's okay now. Okay, good. So, hi, Village Boy. Hi, how are you? I want to invest in Africa. Any suggestion? Okay, where is Ms. Trudy? She's around. Invest in our motherland. Okay, shout out to Water Maia. I see you all. Okay, I see you all. It's fine right now. Thank you. So I guess the show must continue. Uncle Taff, we had a problem with the internet. Sorry about that. So my next question is like, right now, you're building a city in Agambia. I mean, what really inspired you to stop building a state and move to a city? The reason is that, look, the population growth in Africa in general, it's between 2.5 to 3%. So if you think that probably Nigeria is populated with 200 million people, in the next 35 years, there will be 400 million living there. So at that rate, we need to build faster. Every African country has got a housing deficit. For example, in Nigeria, they've got a deficit of about 20 million units. So I considered, why should we be building a state of few hundreds of houses? And that's the problem we have. You don't go into any African country and find developers who are building over 1,000 units. Even Nigeria as big as it is. So I thought, why not? Why not move away from the city and where the clusters are and go away to where people will think it's bush and then develop a city? And that will move people in. It will also help in transportation. Everywhere you go in urban Africa, there's too much traffic congestion. So that's the idea that let's move out, build new cities, so that people will now live in different places. And the concept is to live, work and play. So you live there, you work there and you play there. So you don't have to be on the road all the time driving. Can you guys hear me? Okay, good. So you know what? Somebody is asking me, I should ask you Uncle Taftab, the six countries that Taftab is exploring, what are the six countries? We registered in Mozambique. We've registered in Rwanda. We registered in Cameroon. Nigeria, of course. We registered in Togo. We registered in Kodwa. We registered in Senegal and Gambia. So now we've recently in the process of registering and signing with the Sierra Leonean government. I think I need to ask you this question. You ever left Gambia? I never left Gambia seriously. I'm a maid in the Gambia product. Everything I have done in my life is in the Gambia. I was, I schooled here, worked here. The longest period that I have been out of this country is when I went to Nigeria to develop the Lyft-African Gulf Estates. But with that even, you know, it was in 2012, I have, I shut down. I stayed here for a month and then come over for some time. But I have always lived in the Gambia and I still live here. I call Gambia my home. And this is why somebody said, I should ask you, can you ask Uncle, what advice he can give to young Africans to believe that they can make it in Africa without going to the West? But Africa is full of opportunities, you know, and most of the time people go to the West because they've seen the West developed already. So what do you need to do, which I believe in, I only go into places where people think that there are challenges. In business, you can only be successful if you are able to tackle challenges. That's where the big successes are. But if you want to have it easy, there's no way you'll be successful because everybody will be there. When I went to Nigeria, for example, everybody think that I should develop, I should go and develop in Lagos and in Abuja. So there's too much competition there, you know, and it's saturated. In Puerto Rico, nobody was there. Everybody thought it was a big challenge. The security was an issue. I had to sand field the land with about 650,000 cubic meters of sand. You know, but today if you go, now everybody's rushing in there. So that is key. Wherever you find challenges, a good entrepreneur, we get in there and find the solutions. And if you make a breakthrough, you will make a big breakthrough. You'll be successful. The vision that Uncle Taff has qualifies him for the president of United State of Africa. Tell them that I am not into politics. I do everything but politics. Actually, you know, Maya, I do things. But I get this very often. Oh, no, no, no, you should learn. You should be a politician. Why is it that most Africans, when they think that they have money, the next thing is they want power, politics. If they are in politics, they want to make money. I don't strictly believe in so. I believe that we all have a responsibility to uplift our people. And my responsibility is to lift the conditions of the masses through entrepreneurship, through construction, through real estate development. And that's what I want to do. That's where my expertise is. And most recently is to help the youth to develop. And that I can do without sitting in any government office. Why do people call you the youth's mind then? Well, because I'm very youthful in mind. I mean, I love connecting with the youth because the youth are the future of any generation. And we, at our age now, having gathered all these experience, we are the architects of the destiny of the youth. So therefore we have a role to play with people like yourselves. Being with you, I can share my experiences. If I see you doing something that I did and I went wrong or something went wrong, then I will advise you to avoid it. You can be privileged. And most of the time you are more privileged than us because in our own times, we never had internet at your age. But today you have all this. But there are certain basic things in life that any young person will need to understand to be successful. So therefore I want my legacy to be on influencing positively the life of the young people with the youth. And that is why I get called the youth's mind. The youth's mind, I just want to say thank you so much. You've shared a lot of questions coming in. Don't forget to like the video. We've got over a thousand people tuning in right now. But this is a question. So I need to ask you the question for you to answer it for me. But a big shout out to John Tables for the super chat. You can also ask questions with super chat. Yeah, feel free. On your first unit, were you actually doing the work for yourself as a carpenter? No, no, I wasn't. I wasn't. Actually, I stopped working as a carpenter when I was about 21, 22, 23. Because when I was teaching in my second job as a junior instructor in Lamin Technical Center, I used to work as a junior instructor. But then after work, I will then work at the production center as a carpenter together with the trainees. So I will make extra money. And again, those are the signs of an entrepreneur. So while I got paid my salary for teaching, then after two o'clock when teaching was over, I will stay in the workshop and work as a carpenter. And basically we were making furniture, school furniture. So when I started working for Barfobiti, I was hired as an engineer's assistant. So I got trained as an engineer. Then I did quarantine surveying. I would do some little bit of drashmanship at the time. I would do side supervision. So more or less I did everything within construction whilst I was employed. How many years of apprenticeship? The way you were talking, it seems you did a lot of apprenticeship. 15 years, 15 years of apprenticeship. Learning from people. Yes, yes. That is key, that is important. But I want to be a CEO as soon as possible. That's not possible. Some of you are lucky probably in the fields that you are. I mean, there are certain fields that honestly, you need not be an apprentice in doing it. But there are certain things, for example, in real estate development, you need to do your apprenticeship. Otherwise you will make mistakes. And if you make mistakes, obviously your business will go down. So I always advise young people who wants to go into businesses like this, that take your time. As we say in English, room was not built in a day. You know, take your time. I mean, if you are in your 30s, you haven't even started. So you should take your time and be a master of the game. You know, learn the skill very well. So when you set up and you are running your business, then you will not make certain mistakes. Or did you pay for people to work? Okay, I think he has already answered that. Could a foreign investor come in and do the same type of real estate investing? Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, in West Africa, we are governed by ECOWAS. And ECOWAS gives you the right if you are living in West Africa to do business anywhere. And you can even go in without a visa. Now, in Africa today, we have the ACFTA, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, and it's opening up the borders. It's already in place because all 53 countries, I think, have ratified it. So your goods can move from one country to the other. Even as a non-African, you can. As long as you go through and play the rules, then you can operate. There's nothing that discriminates you as a foreigner, regardless of who you are, to do business in the Gambia or anywhere in Africa. And that is why, as you know, if you go to Africa, you'll find a lot of Indians, a lot of Chinese. As long as you follow the process, you can do business. As soon as you follow the process, you can do business. Say, I've had you tough in jail. Okay, you are not a politician, but please advise African president to work on national housing development. Yes, I think that's absolutely right. Housing is a basic human need. And where I can, I do. I mean, I have an advocacy program actually in the Gambia called the TAFHA, you know, where we advocate for housing and try to make housing more accessible and affordable. At the level of the continent, also I have a relationship with shelter Africa, which is owned by African governments. And I am trying to do everything possible to make housing affordable and accessible. I think you are building affordable homes here because all the places that are being, most of your houses are affordable. Yes, they are. I mean, I'm a specialist in affordable housing. And I tell people all the time that housing in Africa can be broken down into three different stages. One is social housing. Social housing is more for those in the lower end of the market. And for those type of houses, government must intervene deep time, meaning they have to provide land, they have to provide certain concessions and so many other things to make the housing affordable. To the mainly public servants and those who are in the lower end of society. Then the next bracket is the middle income bracket, which is affordable housing that we do. And the last one is the high end, which is unlimited. All depends on your pocket. This question I really don't wanna ask, but people are asking it too much. They said, how much are you worth? Oh, no, no, that's not my tradition. I don't know how much I'm worth. You don't know how much you work? Because that's irrelevant to me. Yeah, I don't even think about it. As long as I get up in the morning and I can have a simple breakfast, then when there's lunch, I have a nice lunch and then have a dinner. When as long as I cover my basics, then I'm fulfilled. I mean, I don't know how much I'm worth and I don't even want to sit down and calculate what I'm worth. I know that I have a business, which today is mainly owned by my kids, and anything that I want, any money that's in my pocket, I give away, I help a lot. But it is not our culture. Everybody's got their own culture or their tradition, but it's not our culture to sit down and think of how one is worth. And I am not that tired. I mean, I don't look at material wealth. I am passionate about what I do. I love what I do. And I do things in a very big way. I had doing small things, but in terms of how we can work, I had these questions all the time, but that's not a familiar to say. I mean, maybe sometime, somewhere, somebody can work it out in their own formula. I don't know what I'm worth and I don't want to know. Can I have a round of applause for Uncle Taff? Just don't say anything. I want to see a round of applause in the comment section. Please do me a favor. I want to see a round of applause for Uncle Taff. A round of applause, man. This is the best answer I've ever had since I started creating YouTube videos. A round of applause, man. Don't say anything. I just want to see a round of applause. Just clap your hands, clapping emoji. Give me that clapping emoji. Give me that clapping emoji, yeah? Let's go, let's go, let's go. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Keep it rolling, keep it rolling. Keep it rolling. This is the black one, by the way. This is the black one. A round of applause, a round of applause. A round of applause. Oh my goodness. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen you all over 1,200 people in the live stream. Thank you so much for tuning in. A round of applause for Uncle Taff. A round of applause for Uncle Taff. Oh, hey. Okay, you know what? So this is, I think this is a question. This is building a city for work, live and play. You will need a firm internet connection. Is it, is that plan? Yes, it is. You know, the connectivity is not in my hands, it's in the hands of government and government regulates it. As you just said now, it's an opportunity. And so, I know in the Gambia, there is a fiber optic connection which is faster than anything we use. But recently I heard that in Zanzibar, there's a balloon that's floated for internet connectivity. Yes, yes. And I think that's something we will very soon see around the world and in Africa, where internet connections will not probably be controlled by different countries and be so expensive in Africa. That's what happens in technology. Remember when we first started with phones? I know you're very young. The phones, mobile phones we used to carry was like carrying a briefcase. You know, and then it started with the motor-roller ones that will flip. And nowadays, look at what we carry, you know? Very, very small and tiny. And we even have our smartphones. So as technology develops, I have a feeling that internet connectivity will be solved, especially in Africa. It will be accessible. It will be affordable. So it's an opportunity that's sitting there for somebody to grab and it will happen. Feel free and ask questions. This live is mad, yeah, very mad. You know, I always bring you the best. You know, I always bring you the best. So feel free and ask your questions. Uncle Taf, what are your daily routine? So it's early in the morning when you wake up. Well, whenever I wake up in the morning, I'm a Muslim and I'm practicing Muslim. So I wake up very early in the morning. Early here means that at 5.36 I am up and I do my prayers. It takes me about an hour to do all my prayers. And then I hit the beach. I mean, I'm on the beach. I used to jog, but now I'm getting a bit old for it. So I walk fast to burn the fat. And I walk about 10 kilometers every day, then come in, grab my breakfast, hit the office or the site. Most of the time I'm on the site, you know, I'm on site because that's the way I have been trained. I walk on site and I love to see things to happen. I hate sitting in meetings. I hate it, you know, especially these days with so many theories. I mean, I get bored, you know. So I'm not a fan of going into workshops and seminars and you name it, too much talk. I want to make things happen and feel it, you know. You said you love to make things happen, you know. In Africa, I feel like we talk a lot with no actions. Yes, we do, we do. As we say, a lot of people just talk the talk. They don't, you know, they don't talk, you know. So I believe in getting these alls. And most of the time, when I plan to do things, or as a team when we plan to do things, the vision always starts with me, but it's the team that implements. Most of the time, people think we are crazy, you know, this is not possible. For example, I told you a story when we were building the African Union villas in the Gambia. Yeah. It was in 2005, December, that the president of the country at the time called us in and said that, you know, he was going to host the summit. And hosting the summit, the first thing you need to do is to be able to provide, you know, housing, not housing, but residences, you know, that's commensurate to the level of heads of states. And that's a big thing. And the summit was supposed to take place in July, first week of July. So we needed to start in January and by June, we need to have it ready. So we developed 52 presidential villas, furnished them, everything, to the last TV, the last appliances, everything done in four months. And it was 100% done by my team of Gambians. We had some Senegalese also who also came in, but purely young Africans did it. But everybody thought it was impossible. But again, I just want to refer you to my most common quote by Nelson Mandela, who says that it is always impossible until it is done. And I want every young African to adopt this code. When you wake up in the morning, just have in your mind that whatever people are saying that you want to do that is impossible, it is possible. So it is always impossible. Those who say impossible will fail. But you say that it's something that is possible and you will have it done. You know, my girlfriend always say something. Yeah, nah, then it's impossible. Yeah, it's not impossible. It all depends on how you see it. Just like seeing a glass, you know, when you put half glass, some people will see a glass half empty or others will see it half full. So be amongst those who see it as half full. Have a positive mind. I mean, be always an optimistic person and naturally an optimistic. And I never say never, I never give up. You know, and the saying is that, look, you must always run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. If you cannot crawl, then even slide. Just make sure you move from one place to the other. No matter how small it is and you will achieve your dream. See, I'm consuming a lot today and I feel like my head is busted right now. Uncle Taff is blowing my mind. Just the same way he's blowing your mind in there. Let me know what you think about what Uncle Taff is saying. Let me know in the comment section because he's reading them. And listen, first of all, I wanna say thank you for sharing what you know to us. I mean, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Not everyone will do what you're doing. I mean, what you're doing should not be free, but you're getting it for free. So you know what- Let me tell you, Maya, before you say that, what use is it that if I keep the knowledge that I have? Especially when you pass on. Doesn't it make sense that for any knowledge that you have that you should pass it on? And I think I'm at that age now. I am at an age where if I just keep what I know to myself, actually for me it's darkness. It means you're not normal. That's not normality. I mean, anybody at my age should work on your legacy. Your legacy on what you want to remember for when you pass on, you know, my age 65, you know, I always tell you that I target 80. I think 80 is good living, it's a good score. And from 65 to 80 now, it's only 15 years. So whatever is left in my life, I would like to live beyond 100 years, but let us be reasonable. After 80, you're not part of the equation anymore. So I would like to share as much as possible the knowledge that I have, the experience that I have. So therefore, when I am at that age of 80, imagine if I come into Ghana and then, you know, I say, okay, I'm gonna visit Maya. So I visit you and find you in a beautiful office. Then you send your Bentley or your Roseways to pick me up. And then I say, oh, Uncle Taf, you know what? When we did that interview in 2022 in your office, in February, you said something that made a difference in my life. And that is why who I am, this is why I am who I am today. And that is fulfilling, that's fulfillment. For me in life, it's all about fulfillment. You can eat your caviar from Iran, costing a small part, thousands of dollars. And I can eat my pepper soup and feel fulfilled. You know, life is relative, wow. You know, at times, most of the time, especially those of us who are very Western, some of the things that we think that is life, it isn't. It's very relative. You must be fulfilled. And fulfillment is about your conscience. And look, my conscience says that this is what is right and I'm going to do it and I'm happy doing it. And for me, that's who I am. I don't even know what to say. Like, I don't know what to say. Can we have a round of applause again? A round of applause, yeah? A round of applause for Uncle Taf. Listen, what am I, you have given your wisdom and ideologies for free. It's after an individual has self-developed, yeah? I mean, listen, I don't even know what to say right now. A round of applause, yeah? A round of applause. I got so many questions in here. You see, I've always been telling you guys that it's time for us to do transfer of knowledge. Because most of us, like the youth growing up in Africa, don't even have mentors. You don't have people to look up to. But when I started interviewing entrepreneurs in Africa, listen, it has changed my life. I don't know about you, but listen, the watermine that you know, two years ago is not the same watermine now. And you know why? Because of people like Uncle Taf. I mean, he has only one watch, you know? He's only one watch, no chain, nothing. So me, since Uncle Taf is wearing only one watch, me, I would not even wear one. I don't want to wear one. You know, I'm saying that, please watermine, I'm trying to reach you. Please get back to me, it's important. How much does this cell unit in Goff estate in Nigeria? Let me finalize this question. He's saying that Mr. Taf, would you build infrastructure that will house young African and diaspora entrepreneurs that will contribute to technology in the Gambia? Well, you know, building, there's no specific group that you should build for. You will have the same question in the Gambia. Those who are retiring will say, oh, Mr. Taf, why don't you build for us? Because we've worked so hard and we cannot afford a house. What dictates housing like any other commodity is the costs. And some costs are beyond our control. Today in the Gambia, where I am building, I buy land at market prices. Then you buy your materials at market prices. So then the prices are there. It's like, okay, I want to buy a car, but I want a car for the young who are doing whatever. Let's forget about age. Let's forget about creed. Let's forget about nationality. The product is there and there's a cost to it and there's a selling price to it. What one should be looking for is the means to get these. A Mac Pro is the price the same everywhere in the world. So why are people not asking those who manufacture Mac? Oh, we want a special price for the young. No, no. So what you do is you have to find the means. And the means to be able to access housing is through an affordable mortgage system which doesn't exist in Africa. So our African governments and international financial institutions should set up affordable mortgages so that the young can access the mortgage to buy these houses and pay it over a long period. But if you are young at 25 and you have access to a mortgage, that affordable mortgage, you can pay it over 25 to 30 years. Even before that, you can pay up and then you can probably uplift yourself. But the issue of bringing down prices for a certain category of people doesn't work anywhere in the world. But I see this all the time. People ask of it all the time and they will think that our houses are expensive and they blame us. We are just a conduit that put in all the components together. There's nobody anywhere in the world that can bring you cheap houses as probably is required by some people. But the only way to access housing is through an affordable financial structure like cheap mortgages or affordable mortgages so you can have ownership for a decent house. I am a Sierra Leonean living in the USA. Your move is a blessing and we welcome you, sir. As a young, starting in a real estate developer, it's a blessing and an expansion of the market. I will join you sir. Thanks for that. You're welcome. I think I have so many questions. Please feel free and ask your questions. It's a lot. I've not been able to answer everyone's questions. Let me just go for the super chat audience. Thank you so much for the super chat. Really, I appreciate it. African diaspora start investing in Africa. It's never too late. Invest in Dr. Rekhanna. That's what someone is saying in the Wakanda city. All right, so look at that. There's a lot of questions by the way. Someone is saying, what do you think about China-Gambia relationship? Well, as I said, I'm not a politician. I'm not a diplomat. I'm an entrepreneur. I mean, probably they can ask someone who's an expert in diplomacy. Would you be interested in making equal homes round off renewable energy? Well, we are actually, the city we are building in the Gambia is a smart city. So it's a smart meaning. A lot of electronics will be used. And also it's green. All our lighting is solar. We're building a solar farm and the solar farm is about two megawatt in the first phase. And then it's green. So yes, you can put it in an eco-ecocity. When someone is asking, like, do you have plans in Ghana? Ghana actually is difficult for me to come in. I have a feeling that Ghana is saturated. That's my strong feeling. There are other countries that are much more of a virgin investment. And that is why I have chosen Sierra Leone most recently. Housing in Gambia is not affordable for most Gambians considering how much an average Gambian will end. I think I've answered that. I mean, it's not my fault, you know, it's like saying a machine is not accessible. It's not affordable to Gambians and what they earn. What they earn doesn't dictate the price of its housing. Because what you earn is what you earn. So if what you earn cumulative, because you see the amount that you pay for the mortgage anywhere, it's recommended to be about 30% of your salary. So if 30% of your salary cannot afford to buy your house, it's rather unfortunate, but the private sector cannot solve this. It's not about me, Taft and my business, but anywhere in the world, there's no private developer that can solve that problem. And I've answered this. It is the government of the day and through their public enterprises that are dedicated or specialized in housing that should try and alleviate the problems in housing. The private sector cannot solve it. You know, one thing that I was impressed when I got in here, the fact that the people that works for you are all from Africa, different part of Africa, all really inspired that to work with Africans. I mean, Africans coming together to work for you, all really inspired. Well, you see, I'm a Pan-African and the reason being that because I hopped from one country to the other, I cannot restrict my business to any one nationality. So when I went to Nigeria, for example, I moved about 400 Gambian and Senegalese. So coming back here, I have a mixed nationality on site. Actually, I don't focus on the nationalities. I focus on the ability of people to work. And those you see there, I mean, they are competitive. I mean, they are producing whatever is needed of them at a competitive price. So I don't look at nationality. I would like to promote as much Gambian as possible, but that is if they are willing to come and work. So as the saying goes, you can take the horse to the river, but you cannot force the horse to drink. And in our own country here, we seem to be having our young men not willing to work in this area. So I am through this medium again. I am appealing to the young ones that there is work to be done. And they should take up technical skills like what I did being a carpenter or a plumber or electrician. And you will make money. And the future is in it. How do you ensure longevity of your company? Well, there is a succession plan. I mean, I am not doing everything. The last time I signed my company check was 12 years ago. I don't, that's not my business. My business is to be a visionary at the top. And there is a general manager. There are project managers we meet. And there's a structure in place. God forbid if I dropped that today, the company should continue. It's not, the company is not focused only on me, but there is a structure, well structure. It functions. And that is why I'm working in multiple countries. The last time I was in Nigeria was about five months ago. And we're still doing business there. So I think my company has been tested that the company is bigger than Mustapha India as an individual and the corporate structure is in place. I love what you're doing as another Sierra Leonean. Can you build the Wakanda city now that we have? Can you build the Wakanda city now that we have Tranco Electricity? I don't know about Tranco Electricity. No, me, I am into affordable housing. I am into Wakanda. But it's an opportunity for others who are interested. Me, I want to build four walls, simple and nice and functional and affordable. That's my specialty. The houses in Ghana are too expensive. Ghana needs cheap and affordable housing. So I know there are so many people asking questions. Feel free and drop your questions. Is it tough? Do you consider building mad houses in a modern way so that ordinary gamblers can afford it? No, I am not a model, I've answered this question. Look, you have to choose your business. Look, some people decide to develop keke models. Some others decide to develop motorcycles. Some decide to develop Porsche, Lamborghini, and so on. My decision is to build affordable housing for a certain category of the market. And the rest is open. If you want to build more houses, please go and build more houses, but I don't want to build more houses. Hello, uncle. I have 1000 hectares in DRC. I'm looking for investors. Would you like to invest in my land? Not for now. DRC is too far for me. Okay. So he's saying that DRC is too far for him right now. Let me know, drop your questions and let go, but I want to ask you on the top. I've got so many questions, but the questions are vanishing. What can I get you into trouble with? Go ahead. You're an African. Yes. Living in Africa. You invested in Africa. What do you think is the major problem of this continent? I think I answered the question. Yeah, I've not answered that. I answered the question in Port Harcourt, and the major problem is on leadership. At every level, African problem is based on leadership. Somebody is put in front on anything and somehow they will not do the right things. The right things meaning that putting the interests of the followers, those that they are leading, taking them up as their responsibility. What we see is that once you are a leader in a position of responsibility, you focus more on yourself than those that you are leading. And it's almost everything you find in Africa. So that is a major problem. If I had my way, I would pray and find a ways of developing new kind of leaders, honest leaders, leaders with good vision, leaders who are accountable, leaders who are honest, leaders who work hard, leaders who are passionate with what they're doing. So they see their responsibility of why they're occupying that position rather than themselves. What are you doing to solve the leadership problem right now? I mean, you have said it. Yeah, are you doing anything to solve a bit of the leadership problem we have in Africa? Well, in my own ways, I set up a leadership academy because again, I'm futuristic and I invest in the youth. And in my leadership academy, we train these young leaders to carry the values that I've just mentioned. There are 12 core values we think that if anybody has will be a good leader. And this we started three years ago. The first year, we had 50 of them. The second year, we had 150. The third year at this time, you saw it, we have over 500 of them. So if we do this, probably as it multiplies, hopefully in the next few years to come, anywhere we go, we will find leaders who have been trained and will develop these core leadership values. I want you all to feel free and then ask questions. We need leadership, who cares for the people, not just their family. That's another problem in Africa. How much money USD do you, do I need to begin to build properties for rent in West Africa? I've got a mind, I'm American. Do I need a bank loan? Well, you know, I would think that you should do your research. Today, you have my uncle around. You know my uncle, don't you? My uncle knows everybody in the world. He's your uncle, Google? Uncle Google? And you know my aunts, huh? I don't know your aunts. My aunt is anti-YouTube. So all you need to do is, you know, ask my uncle, if you want to do business in Ghana, don't ask. Just tell my uncle doing business in Ghana and probably you will have the investment promotion address. They will give you all the conditions for doing business in Ghana. And please remember that when you say Africa, Africa is made up of 54 countries and every country is different. But Google them, do your research, do your due diligence and then you will take a vision on where you want to invest. Someone is saying, wow, is this live? Yes, this is live with Uncle Taf right here. We've got over 1,570 people watching me right now. Have you liked the stream? Please do me a favor, I like the stream. Please do me a favor, I like the stream. If you haven't liked the stream, like the stream. Because listen, this man, I can keep him here for two hours and I really want to do that because listen, Uncle Taf, I think I have an idea. I have an idea, yeah? If you are ready to hear my idea, listen, I just want you all to give me this fist, you know this fist, this black emoji, this fist emoji. I have an idea. And if you all are ready for this idea, just fill the comment section with this emoji, this fist emoji. Listen, after listening to Uncle Taf, I feel like I need to do something. I feel like I need to do something. Can you please ask my question? What's your question? I'll ask your question, I'll ask every single question, but I need this fist emoji because I really have an idea and I think if Uncle Taf say no, I'm going to cry. But I'm hoping that he's going to say yes. So if you all agree with me that I need to suggest this idea so that Uncle Taf will agree to it, I need this fist emoji. Thank you. All I need is the fist emoji. If you're ready, I've seen my boss in here, Covenant of Fair, I see him. I see him coming back to Ghana very soon. All right. So this is the idea that I have and Uncle Taf cannot hear me right now. This is the idea that I have. We need transfer of knowledge. We need to hear more from Uncle Taf. Don't they think we need to set up maybe, how do you call it? More like a master class where Uncle Taf will come maybe every month to come and speak to us because I've already declared this year as the year of charity. And listen, the charity needs money. And I think if you really want to join this, I think $10 will be okay. You pay $10 subscribe to listen to Uncle Taf. The $10 goes to the charity team and then they use the money for the charity that we're doing this year. What do you think? Because I think this is just the beginning. It cannot only be Uncle Taf. Probably I'll meet so many entrepreneurs along the way and they will come talk to you, speak to you all and then just pay $10 subscribe to it. I'm not, I don't need your money. Like listen, what am I, doesn't need your money. But if you want to give me money, it's okay. I need money, but I'm not forcing you. I'm not telling you that pay me $10. This $10 that you're going to pay, we will subscribe it to what you call it, the charity that we're doing. I've posted a webinar here. It's actually the president of the charity that I'll be doing this year. So your money goes to him so that I'll be able to use the money to build a school, build a hospital, build whatever we're supposed to do this year. Listen, you guys are not ready for me, but I just want to ask Uncle Taf if he thinks this is a great idea. I think it's a great idea. Anything that one can do with charity, there are people who deserve to be helped. And those who are privileged like ourselves must be seen to be helping. So yes, and anything that you are doing that we can add value, Maya, why not? We look at the details of it. We are quite interested, not only probably in Ghana and Gambia, but I think it should be a pan-African thing. No, no, no, it is. Yes, yes, we will have to work out the detail and charity what is most important is accountability. So yes, I can just say a yes, and then when the details come out, we will cut the T's and dot the I's. Uncle Taf gave me yes, so which means it's gonna happen. You all should get ready, and we're gonna make this happen because I feel like young Africans need mentors. I am fortunate enough to have Uncle Taf sitting right beside me. He gives me the staffs without even telling me that Maya gave me a dollar or anything. He transferred everything direct to my head. My head is becoming so bigger now. It used to be slightly bigger, but now it's extremely big because the things that I'm consuming, you guys have no idea. You see, that's why you've not seen me on YouTube for so long, but wait for it. I'm coming back, and when you see me back, you guys will be happy to see what Maya has installed for you. But let's do this. Uncle Taf, you have an Instagram page? Yes, I do. My Instagram page is Taf Injai. Taf Injai. So I know that most of you want to hear from Uncle Taf. I've got 1,500 people watching. Let me put the Instagram here. Taf Injai. Taf is a capital. No, it's P-A-F. Taf Injai. And here, here. Okay, so this is Uncle Taf's Instagram. Let me go and check. It's Uncle Taf. Your Instagram is growing. It is, yeah. Since I started rubbing shoulders with you. Ah! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! So, so... No, no, but it didn't tell us... So this is what happens when you go around with celebrities, ah? Ah, ah, ah, I'm not a celebrity. You're a celebrity now. Uncle Taf, tell us what happened after our first interview in Nigeria. Well, after our first interview in Nigeria, obviously our interview went viral and it was watched by so many people, you know, policymakers. Even some prime minister watched it. Ministers who are watching it. And I got contacted by quite a number of policymakers to invest in their own countries. Also private people. So I applaud you. I thank you for doing that. And yes, it's always good to promote each other. So I think you did quite a lot in promoting our business when you interviewed me in Nigeria. But I think I guess now you're a superstar, you know, because these days when I see you going out, you see people saying, Uncle Taf, Uncle Taf! No, but locally, you know, I mean, I've been around for a while and as I told you, we have some programs on TV. It's a very small country. So everybody knows everybody. But yes, I must admit that your interview that you did with us in Port Harcourt, you know, added quite a little value on demand for us. So I appreciate that. I think you should give Jews where it belongs. People are still saying, Taf for president, but he doesn't want to hear that. But go follow Uncle Taf on Instagram. I've seen 5,200 people following you right now. I believe that we can make it 5,500 before we get out of this live stream. If you have an Instagram page, if you want to be inspired, if you want to know more from Uncle Taf, I guess you have to go follow him on Instagram. I'm telling him to be more consistent these days because I feel like he has a lot to share. And listen, social media can change things. So that is why I'm telling him that he should be more active on the internet. And listen, he also have, you have Twitter, right? I have Twitter, yeah. But what's the Twitter handle? Same Tafinger. Oh, okay. So same account. You can follow him on Twitter. You can follow him on Instagram. Yeah, hey, this question, man. He's saying that can you please tell us or say something that will help our leaders to think about the country and grow it? Well, we do. Listen, I mean, anytime I have an opportunity with a meeting of any leader, any political leader, I share my views within my own speciality, within my own areas. But I don't know everything, but the little experience that I have in what I do, meaning business, entrepreneurship. I mean, I share my honest views. And I also serve at the national level. I serve in positions that will influence policies. And that's the role I can play. And at times in the public space, I use social media. I mean, I tweet about issues. And so therefore I do the list, the little I can. Remember politics is a different, totally different ball game. And at times you need to be very careful on what is said or how it is interpreted. I've seen like a lot of you are in here. Please continue to drop your questions, whatever question that you have on Qatar. Please drop it. It's an African solution for a better Africa. What do you think it's gonna happen if we have a borderless Africa? I just wanna hear from you about this. Well, if you have a borderless Africa, obviously it's one country instead of the different countries that we have. It means more business opportunities. It means better competitiveness. So and I think that is clearly understood and that is why there is the Africa continental free trade area. That is understood and we know that look it's better for all of us. But again, let's also be realistic. Why is it that it's not working because there are some people that when things work, it doesn't work for them. So we need to clear those obstacles and those are the ones who will put the obstacles in place. But everybody knows that if Africa comes together as one trading block, it's better for everybody. Everybody who is ready to compete. Everybody who is ready to compete, man. I think the African free trade, this is what I've discovered. I feel like it's on paper right now but it's not functioning. You don't think so because a lot of people that are having, they wanna trade among themselves but they can't trade now and the headquarters is being built. Yes, you know, let me tell you Maya, I mean, Rome was not built in the day. And for example, let's take Ghana when you were born. You were born after Kwame Krumah and Kwame Krumah was the visionary of Ghana. Actually it is believed that Kwame Krumah lived ahead of his own time. What he was talking about, probably that's what we're implementing today. So at times we think that things should be implemented immediately but things like this, especially when you deal with governments and politics, it doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, what is important that let's take that step ahead all the time and we will get there. It might not be probably completed within one's generation but it's good that we are going in the right direction. A good example is apartheid. Who thought that apartheid would have been taken out in South Africa? Who would have thought that South Africa would have been what it is today? But in 1994, when time was up, it just happened. You know, again, Mandela went to prison for 27 years for that. So we don't want to take that long. We think it should be faster but the African continents would come together and we should be more competitive so that the African citizens, their lives can be uplifted. I feel like you love Mandela so much. Oh yeah, I love Mandela. I mean, I don't think for me as a human being, in my own times, I don't think there's anybody that deserves that honor better than Mandela for good reasons, for good reasons. I think if he was into religion, probably Mandela could be a saint because Mandela suffered. I mean, just think about it. At your age now, Mandela went to prison for 29 years, for 27 years. 27 years in prison. And he came back and he recalls side with the same people who did so many terrible things and sent him to prison. Not everybody can do that. And again, what happened? He served only for one term. He sat there one term and he left. Leaders of today want to serve like 100 times. They will change the constitution. They will change the constitution. I think power in Africa is sweet. That's why when they get there, they want to change the constitution. And I think this is a problem of West Africa at this very moment, where leaders of today are trying their possible best to change the constitution of Africa. You know what? I really want to let you know that Ankitaf, after this live stream, most of you will be like, how do I get in touch with Ankitaf? How do I get in touch with Ankitaf? I'm just going to leave you because I don't live here. I'm going back to Ghana. So if you want to hear from him, let's, which page are you active on? I'm active on Twitter and on Instagram. Active. But I also, you are on YouTube, you know. You're on YouTube? Yes. Hey, how come I don't know this? Yeah, I'm on YouTube. And Mustafa, my name, Mustafa Jai. Let me look for that. I didn't know that. Yeah, I'm on YouTube. I haven't seen the far. It's like, this is what you do for fun, is this? Yes, yes. Jai and then Taf, yeah. That's it. Oh, OK. Ah, man, then we can, you know what? Your channel is like 3.88 now. Yeah. We'll make you get fucking right now. Go ahead. Ah, let's put money. I don't want to put this money. There's something going on. Let's put money on it. OK, I will not put what I'm putting down. Oh, what? You will not see it on the screen. You will not? OK, listen, hey, if you guys disappoint, you guys should not disappoint me, you know. This is Uncle Taf's YouTube channel. You all should go subscribe to it. I want to say this. I came here because of Uncle Taf. And to be honest, it has been the best trip ever. I mean, I've never seen such a humble man. You know, I would say, I feel like I'm humble, but I don't think I have. After meeting Uncle Taf, his humility, when you see him at the office, I'm not saying this because he's here. You know, I'm not saying this because he's here, yeah. But the things that I've seen since I came in here, it's mind-blowing, yeah. Mind-blowing. I mean, he's so down to earth. They do chatting with his workers, just moving around. I'm like, just man, does he forget who he is? You know, but I think he's used to it and he's living his best life at his very moment. So let's do this. Let's subscribe to the channel. I think we need to do this 4K. 4K, we can get this channel in 4K in a minute. I know we can do that. I believe in you all. Ah, see, what was it? See, Uncle Taf, it's just in less than one minute. Yeah. We are at 3.93 now. Wow, wow, wow. So, actually, you know, this is the time that we stream with the tap-hop. It's going on now at 3.30. Hey, Cherry. Yes, it's on now. This is the live chat, you know. So I don't distract people. Oh, no, no, no, no. Yeah, but I just wanted you to see the 4K before we get out of here. I mean, listen, whatever. You're not joking, huh? I don't joke. I say things that I do it, just like the way you said you walk the talk. Yeah. I also walk the talk. So listen, before I refresh again, it's 4K. Please, you guys should not disappoint me. I just want to refresh here. I just want to refresh. Have you subscribed yet? Have you subscribed yet? Let me check. Eh, you see that? You see that? I can tell. OK, 200 more people to go. Let's show Uncle Taf that on this channel, we are an army. You know, I believe in my people. I believe in the army. You guys never disappoint. This is why I love and appreciate each and every one of you. See, one, two, three, 4K to go. One, two, three, let's go. Yeah! You got it. Someone is there. I told you, right? Yeah. Yeah, OK, yeah. A round of applause. A round of applause. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. God bless you all. God bless you all. That's why we'll be there for the master classes, man. We'll be there for the master classes. And subscribe to the channel. You know, this is like YouTube directly, so they'll be able to click on it and go and subscribe as soon as possible. I just want to say thank you all so much for not disappointing me. I love and I appreciate you all. See, can we give a round of applause for Uncle Taf for sharing his knowledge with us? I mean, things like this are not for free. By tomorrow, he will hit 10K. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Yeah, I mean, we can do it. We can do it. By tomorrow, we have to make sure that that channel hits 10K. So do me a favor. Subscribe, even if you are not watching this live stream. If you came here after the live stream, go to Uncle Taf YouTube channel. I'll put the link in the description. Subscribe and be part of Uncle Taf's YouTube channel. Uncle Taf, any message for Africans? Well, my message is that let's never give up. You know, the problem that we have in Africa, all of us think that some of these major problems that we have in the continent should be solved now within our continent, within our lifetime. Let us make sure that we play our own role at any time of our lives. Life is a relay. And the relay, you run your own path and then hand over the button. When it's time to hand over the button, please do so. Don't hold onto the button. Don't underperform when you hold that button. So just play your role and make sure you leave a legacy. I want to share with the viewers of my principle about life. And I please take note, take note, pen and paper and note this down. What I say is that life is real, R-E-A-L. Life is real, R-E-A-L. Because I believe that life is made up of four quadrants. I said earlier that I am somebody who believe that life is active between zero and 80. Anybody who goes up to 80 years, then you have, you know, you've lived long. So let's divide that 80 into four, meaning four quadrants. The first quadrant is from zero to 20. From zero to 20, think about it. I'm sure all of you are watching are more than 20 years old. That is the reliance quadrant. You only rely on people, your mom, your dad, your guardian, your parents, you know, and so on, so on, so on. So that's a period when you are reliant. So the second quadrant is between 20 and 40. That's the time that you are resilient. That's the time that you are resilient and you execute. So E, that's the time that you execute, meaning between 20 and 40, you execute. So R for reliance, E for execution, meaning that while you've started work, you've started a family, you've started a business, even whatever you want to do in life, that's the beginning of just getting into it when you are between ages of 20 and 40. Then the third quadrant is actualization between the ages of 40 and 60. You actualize, you make things happen. And that's the quadrant I call the make it or break it quadrant. Just think about it. All the people you know who's made it in life, they've made it in life between this quadrant. Not people like my young son here. My son made it in life, he's not even 30. So then the last quadrant which I belong is between 60 and 80 and above. That's the legacy, the legacy quadrant, meaning you're leaving a legacy. So everything I am doing is about leaving a legacy. What do you want to be remembered for? So for me, that's why it is irrelevant to ask me about material wealth. Oh, Mr. Angutabh, how much are you worth? Oh, how much is this worth? What do you do with this? That's irrelevant, totally irrelevant because I will not be remembered for those valuables of life. So your legacy, what have you done to make a difference? And that's what I'm working on. I'm investing all my time and life and energy, especially African to leave that legacy. Whilst living it, I might be a living legend. Some consider me to be a living legend that yes, you are living, but you are a legend. But after you've passed on to the other world, remember, history should remember you and your legacy should be on what you have done. So that's my last note. I'm sure this will not be the last time that I am not talking to all of you and many, many more. But let me take this opportunity to thank my dear son, my friend, my body. You know, you see, actually, don't be look alike. We're getting to look alike. I have no hands up. I have no hands up. Somebody opposite, who's not sitting in the screen and saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's holding hands up. Come and say hello now. So, you know, Maya, since I met him, we just, we just connected. You know, so it's fun. I call him even, oh, look who's here. Hey, you just run, you just run to the screen. Come in the middle now, be in the middle. Look at who's here. Hey guys. That's Trudy here. We all had fun. So many people, yeah. If you have a question to ask Uncle Ta, what would that question be? Oh, my goodness. It's been, I'm so inspired, guys, hanging out with him the last about 10 days. Thank you so much for letting me talk along. Man, like I have million questions to ask you. Wow, I feel like you're one man who has done so much. Oh, my goodness. Should have told me to prepare. So, one question I would ask you is what has kept you going? Because I'm sure in your journey, you have had moments when you wanted to give up, but what kept you pushing? Success, you know, I just wanted to succeed. Anything I am doing in my life, I just want to succeed. Failure is not in my vocabulary. It happens. I have failed. I have failed so many, many times. Actually, I think my failures are more than my successes. But you know what happens in life? People don't at all mention your failures. They only focus on your success. So, yes, but because I want to succeed all the time, that keeps me going, you know? And then, you know, it's so nice when you succeed, especially when you succeed in a teamwork. Anything that you do in life, please remember doing it as a team. Maya, everybody sees you as the face of what you admire, but you are not the only one. No. Who's the one who covers you all the time? Stephen, you have a team who's uploading and managing all this. I dealt with your PA. And you have beautiful misjudgment by your side on the side. He fired engine. He's the one who fired engine. So please, whatever we do, let's do it together as a team. It doesn't work as an individual. One person will be the face of the team and people will focus on him. Good example, Saad Yomane and Senegal. But remember, the team was 11 players all the time. Not only those 11, remember there was a man here, there's a coach, there is an assistant coach. And again, even spectators. What would have happened if the spectators were not there shouting and clapping? So let us work together as Africans building our teams and forgetting about our individual's interests. That's what's killing Africa. We all focus on only about us. Our ego is so big and so high. But believe me, there is pleasure and enjoyment in being humble and being who you are. So but go ahead with your questions, you have any more? No, thank you. No, thank you. These people don't want us to go. Now, a lot of people are joining. Wow, wow, wow. How many are joining now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of many people. No, this is the first time, you know. This is the first time about 1,700 people watching. Like I said, Uncle Tav have a YouTube channel. Let's surprise him with 10,000 when he wakes up. So you all should go subscribe to the YouTube channel. Listen, it's very important for me. I mean, YouTube is my stronghold and I believe that you guys will never disappoint me. So that's Uncle Tav's YouTube channel. Click on the link if you haven't subscribed. I think we've already got it in 4,000 but we can still take it to 5,000 if we want to. And I know that you guys want to. So let's make it happen. Wow, wow, wow. Let's make it happen. We can take him to 5,000 subscribers. I've seen you all in here. And how many of you use Twitter? How many of you use Twitter? If you use Twitter, say hello. If you use Twitter, just say hello. I want to see if you all have Twitter. Yeah. If you have Twitter, just say hello. I heard that you guys were looking for me in the Gambia. Check your Instagram, I mean, I've been looking for so many people but I couldn't meet you all but what am I is actually living tomorrow morning. So it's going to be hard but I'm going to be back. I'm definitely going to be back. How many of you use Twitter? So listen. Listen, Uncle Tafe, let me. Tafe Jai. Put Tafe, oh, the same name. T-H-F-E-N-D-I-E. Tafe Jai. Tafe Jai, yeah, that's my name. If you use Twitter, I think he's more active on Twitter and I'm also more active on Twitter, yeah. I've seen that you guys are not following me on Twitter because I was not a big fan of Twitter but now I'm on Twitter. So if you have Twitter, check Tafe Jai, go follow him on Twitter, be part of his Twitter family and listen, you're going to learn a lot and right now I think he's having so much fun with social media. I see him on his phone, everything. And my TikTok. Ah, TikTok, TikTok. That's what I love best, man, TikTok. I love TikTok. You know what happened? You go to this world, it's so democratic. Especially in the social media world, somebody said, oh, you are too old for this. I said, look at him, my friend. Who are you to tell me I'm old for it? So TikTok is fun. I'm also on TikTok, you know. So if you're a TikToker, I do a lot on TikTok. I love TikTok. You think it's this thing that kept me bubbling, man? You know what happens? I go around the site and while I'm on site, I see something, boom, I capture it. Same thing on the beach. You saw the fish, I posted on Twitter. So there's always something to show to the world. That's the power of social media. Can you imagine who's connected? People are in Trinidad and Tobago. People are in the Caribbean. If I wanted to get hold of them, probably I would take a plane, fly there and see, you know, show them what Gambia. But today, I just need to take a video, you know, a short video and they will know about the Gambia. So let's go on there. Let's make that difference. Let's change the world by using social media. What is the YouTube account name? I just put the link in here. I think people are interested in your YouTube channel. This is the link. I just followed him on Twitter. Thank you so much for following him on Twitter. Uncle Taf, I don't know, my questions are exhausted. Well, I want to thank you and I'm sure we will see you again. No, definitely. We will see you again. Next, when should we see you? Yeah, where? I don't know. You just invite me. You travel too much. You travel too much, truly. Where do you want us to meet again? Ghana. Or Kenya. Or Kenya. Oh, yeah. I don't know the phone. How about Nairobi, huh? Maybe it's Africa, you know. Yeah, yeah. We need to do it in Africa. You know, Rwanda. I love going to Rwanda. Yeah, Kenya and Rwanda. OK, so we're going to have a next trip. What's your favorite African country? Oh, I think it's Rwanda. I love Rwanda. You've been to Rwanda. You know Rwanda promoted you, huh? Yeah, I know. Where you get in the drain. No, listen, I've been promoting Rwanda so much. I've reached out to the government so much to help us promote Rwanda more. But they don't see me as a guy who can promote Rwanda. We need to make the moves now. Let me use our network. I can't even believe it. Let's use our network now to make sure that we tell African policymakers, African decent makers, African presidents that, look, don't pay all that money. You know they pay consultants. Oh, you go, you know, or you go, what do you go? Why people? Big money to say, look, give me a brother here now. I don't understand. And they will promote the country. See, I went to Rwanda and I saw people buying houses, starting up businesses just because they watch my videos. I was sleeping in the hotel and I saw people working in the hotel. They are not from Rwanda. They are from a different part of Africa working in there. But listen, I send them a proposal. They don't think I deserve to Rwanda. Let me tell you, if I was an African president, what I would do now in promoting my country, I would focus on the best Africans in social media. And you are one of them. And your specialty is YouTube. So say, for example, I would even allocate land. If I were in Uganda here, I would say, you know what? I will now, this is the deal. I'll give you this parcel of land. I'll give you these concessions. Come and do X, Y, and Z. And I want you to be in this country every month. I'll even pay for your fares. You come in here and all I want you to do is to blast the country out. That's it. You know, let people get up in the morning and be floated with millions of positive things about a certain country. And believe me, it will change the whole narratives. I think it's a mindset. Yeah, it's a mindset. It's the mindset. I agree, but we cannot give up. Yeah, we will give up. We need to advocate more and more and more and more. And even what I got shocked when I retell back to the Gambia is like, I never spent so much time in the Gambia the last time that I came, but I managed to do a few videos. And I'm meeting so many people investing in the Gambia because they said they watched my YouTube video. Yeah, I was shocked. Yeah, well, you guys should wait for the video. All these guys are like, yo, we came here because we saw your video. We came here two years ago because you were here three years ago. So I'm encouraging all these government sectors, look at what we're doing and invest in us. We'll make it happen. Nobody will set it up. After this, we're gonna set it up to make sure that look, this is, we're gonna have so many handles. The masterclass, country promotion. We need to get, as I said, teams done, clusters of this, and of this the way to go. And once you succeed in one country, they will start running after you. That's what Africans do. You will start saying, seeing some African countries that you have approached that, you know, they say, no, come now and probably your terms will be better that time. It will happen, believe me. It will definitely happen. And I'm so glad that the impact on the continent has been huge. Marketing is powerful for Africa. That's my son now. Please don't throw his train of loving you both totally. I have so many. I'm already from Canada. I want to go to Africa. I love the people. Live from Germany. You know what? Let's do this. And Qatar don't know where you are right now. Tell us where you're watching us from. Just now, before we sign off. Tell us, so you can sit up on me. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Tell us, tell us where you're watching us from. Wow. Tell us where you're watching us from right now. Tell us USA, LA, Nigeria, Ghana, Ohio, London, Ghana, Lisoto, Australia, Atlanta, Italy, Ghana, Kenya, Scotland, Ethiopia, Germany, USA, Barbados, Jordan, Florida, Rwanda. Send my greetings to the RDB of Rwanda. Germany, New York City, oh wow. All over the world, all over the world. That's incredible. Oh my goodness. I love and I appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you so much for the love and support. I've got people watching me from Namibia, Ukraine, Australia, Minnesota. Oh my good. You guys are amazing. Have you liked the stream yet? Kind of like the stream before we go. Like the stream. And if you haven't followed Uncle Taff on Instagram, just go and follow Uncle Taff on Taff in there, on Instagram, same thing with Twitter. And yeah, same thing with Twitter. Oh my goodness. Have you subscribed to the YouTube channel? Like you need to the channel. If you haven't subscribed, subscribe. And you all should wait for me, yeah? I'm coming very soon. I'll be uploading videos as soon as I get to Ghana. We've got a lot of videos coming up your way. So all you need to do, subscribe, turn on the post notification so that as soon as we start uploading videos, you will get notification. We still got thousands of 100 people watching us. This is the highest peak since I started this YouTube channel. Wow, wow, wow, wow. They love the knowledge you're sharing. Thank you so much. Well, thank you, thank you. I can't thank you more. Thank you. This will not be the last time. Definitely. So Maya, I'm here. I mean, we can keep connected. I can be in the Gambia. You are in... Well, I can still... If people love it, we will come again. Definitely. And please ask us what you want us to talk about and we will choose a topic and really go deep on it. So thank you so much. Thank you, Uncle Toph. I just want to tell you all, thank you so much for tuning in and I appreciate each and every one of you. Don't forget to like the stream. Subscribe and be part of the YouTube channel. How old is Uncle Toph? Uncle Toph is 65, 65, you know? And he's still strong. I mean, when you're working with him, he works faster than me. And do you have any questions before I go? I've got like five minutes to sign out. Five minutes. This is a personal question you want to ask. What are Maya? Feel free and ask and I'll sign out. Please say no sign out. I won't sign out, but yeah. If you have any final question for me, just feel free, ask me. And oh, sorry. I forgot to turn each and every one who supported the channel with the super chat. Thank you. You know, today is Sunday. I know you guys go to church, you know, if you went to church and you're, because this is a church, you know, I'm a pastor myself. My name is Pastor Tito Ma, if you don't know. You are late. You can't still watch them. If you don't know my name, my name is Pastor Tito Ma. So the super chat in here will be used as an offer tree. And don't forget that you went to church. You didn't give money at the church. I'm the church. Thank you so much for being here. Oh, thank you so much for being here. I have to sign up. Goodbye. Love you all. I don't know. If I see more people watching me, I don't know. I don't want to go, but I'll be back. I'll definitely be back. One hour, 34 minute stream. It was nice meeting you all. When is the US trip coming on? I'll give you all an update very soon. Yeah, I don't go to church on Sunday, lol. I want to say peace out. Thank you, Leslie Jane for the super sticker. I appreciate you all. I need to buy a small apartment from your project. Hmm, you guys need to buy from me, oh. Buy from me. Babe, tell them to buy from me, oh. I'm selling. I mean, I don't sell affordable homes. I don't sell affordable homes. So please, because this is- Buy from Modemaya. He's building beautiful houses in Ghana. And this is the beginning of something big. We start like, this is just the beginning. We're going to expand and do bigger things, right? But now we've started in Ghana. Yeah. She needs to be in Ghana. So buy for if you're looking to invest in Africa. Buy from Modemaya. He's very trustworthy. He has worked through a couple of his opinions. Before he is someone who can trust- I'm not running away. Because of his record. I'm not running away. So very soon Modemaya will be like our father here, Mr. Taff. Because Mr. Taff also started with just five- Yes. Yes. Buy from Modemaya. Make sure that by the time I come in on the program again, he's sold out. Yes. I think my babe is the best marketer in the whole world. Oh, yeah. Thank you. And I'll see you all next time. And do you guys think we should continue this? Because I think I feel like this is the first one. I need to bring more entrepreneurs in here to speak to you guys directly. Why leave North Africa out? I'll go. Don't worry. Thank you so much. And I'll see you all in the next one. My name is Mr. Ghana Baby. And I love and I appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you. Peace out. Bye.