 Welcome back to the YouTube channel, it's your boy Mr. Ghana, baby And I'm back again with another video I mean, it's my last day in Cuba So I was supposed to be in Agrabah in Havana I just had to do this story That's why I'm here Ghana My brother Yes, sir Good to see you Good to see you too, man I've heard a lot of good things about you Likewise I was supposed to leave today and I was like You know what? If I don't see you, I'm not gonna leave Appreciate that man Why is everyone talking about you? Good food, man, good food It's just people love good food Of course Your name and where are you from? Well, they call me Chef K And I'm saying I'm from Toronto, Canada Were you born in Ghana or were you born in Toronto? No, I was born here I was born in Aguna Which is like my home It's a village in Kumase somewhere So you're a village boy Just like me Welcome to the club What took you to Canada? I guess at a young age, I didn't have a choice My mom seen my situation in Ghana and she decided to take me What kind of situation are you talking about? She left me when I was like 13 months to go to Canada And when she left, I was living with my father and my stepmother And you know how step-parents I was being maltreated a lot So she found out and later on the line when I was like 9 years old, she came to Ghana and she seen how I was living It wasn't a good situation So she took me and my older brother So I would say that you lived all your life in Canada? Yeah, mostly, for sure How is the experience like? It's cool, man Bittersweet Come again? Bittersweet There's good times and bad times Yeah, I understand How long have you been here? 5 years this April 5 years? Do you miss Canada? I miss certain situations but then when I see what I've been able to accomplish in 5 years in Ghana I see the future here more than over there What was your main intention moving to Ghana? What were you thinking? Why do you have to leave Canada and move back to Ghana? There's no place like home, man I felt like if I brought what I learned from there to here I could establish myself and push myself a lot easier than over there You know what I mean? So you're trying to say that there are more opportunities back here than what you're trying to say? For us that travelled and have a different way of thinking when we bring that way of thinking to over here yeah, there's more opportunities for us What are you doing in here now? I'm running a restaurant cooking hospitality business because the compound 11 is also like a whole store for students to rent out so I supply the students with food and I rent out my compound 5 years in Ghana Establishing your business in here was it that difficult? Extremely difficult How difficult it is? The thing is when you come to Ghana the way we do business abroad is not how Ghanaian people do business We do business like 9 o'clock is 9 o'clock 10 o'clock is 10 o'clock Your word is your bond but I had to find out very quickly that Ghanians don't live by that same code Ghanians do whatever they want whatever they want however they want So if you're not mentally strong they will literally mess up everything you have planned in one second That's not to bash anybody It's like one thing I realized is that when you travel your mind changes The fact that a lot of people in this country never really traveled outside of Ghana don't know how hard it is for us You know what I mean We have to struggle to make a dollar Let's go there You have to struggle to make a dollar How is the struggle like? Because you know me living in Ghana right now I know if you're living in Canada, USA Definitely there are people out there who normally say that those places are heaven on earth I know people don't like me saying these kind of things But I just wanted to know You were struggling, what kind of struggle were you going through because I know so many brothers who are here who are dying Some of them even want to cross the Mediterranean Sea just to go to such places How was the difficulty? What kind of difficulty were you facing? I could just give you one example You have to rent for like 5 years You know what I mean You can live in one house for 2 years by paying one time rent Over there you have to pay rent every month So that's just rent Then you got to pay your utilities which is like gas You got to pay for heating You got to pay for water You got to pay for your food transportation So when you add up all those things you have to literally live by the dollar You have to rent someone's house like Ghana But over there is not like that You have to rent out someone's house apartment and each month you have to pay So you always have to be working You always have to be struggling I know certain people who have been in Canada or America and they can't afford to come back to Ghana Why? Because they have no money or the job that they do and they don't even lose the job So people think that it's gold over there but it's really nice, it's more like slavery Are you kidding me brother? No man, I'm telling you the truth Anyone who is living in Canada right now will concur what I'm saying It's like slavery I'm not the one who is sending this back from the houses on Mar Can you repeat again so that they will know that it's not from me Canada is abroad, that's not Ghana It's literally slavery because the thing is, it's not your country So you don't have no family there that you can rely on, just in case things don't go well for you So you have to literally have to always be pushing You gotta be strong You don't have nobody you can fall back on The government doesn't care about you because you're not his people The system doesn't care about you because you're not their people So you're being pushed into a box You struggle to survive You've been in the jungle basically One more time, are you living or you're surviving here? Here I'm living I can say I'm living I'm free This is freedom I can actually breathe quality air drink quality water talk to quality people The thing is I'm not saying Ghana is easy What I'm saying is if you're from abroad and you have a little something along with your brain you can live like a king here Can I get it? Yeah, for sure Now you're back in Ghana and I definitely know that you have a message for young Africans What will it be? Young people on the continent The only message I can give the people the young people is this Your slow money is buried in no money It really matters The thing about the young Africans is we want everything so fast because we see people driving cars We see people doing this We want to do the same thing But it's what you're about to do We'll be happy and you'll be happy That envy always wants something that doesn't belong to you You feel free Try your best to work hard for what you have and appreciate the little you have because what you have in Ghana is the little you have and that's what you're about to do You have to think about it and stop saying things and don't say things and don't say things because you don't want to say things That's what you're saying I don't know if that makes any sense but I'm trying to say it I feel like the young people they want to rush too much when they see somebody doing something they don't know how that person did it and they don't know how that person did it They want to rob you You give somebody a small chance and say you're doing this to your mum and you're doing this to your mum and you don't know how that person did it They don't know how to say it You don't want to do nothing in Ghana because the young people here are so money hungry that's what they want to do That's not how The more you guys treat people good the more they want to come back It's on the young people to know if people are going to come back to this country just continue to work and bring their money to invest you have to be able to maintain that to be able to look after that So that person has confidence in you and says we could be a brand to have a serious money but if we can't leave this because we're so generous Do you think that it's worth it to invest in an African country? 100% that's the question you gotta ask We don't believe in ourselves We don't think that what we have is good We don't believe in ourselves We don't believe in ourselves But we know that when we come here we probably clean it but when we come here we clean it That's our mentality when people come here they say why are you so full peeing and shitting on the floor you think they respect you because when you go to his country you can't do that so we have to change our way of thinking about our own we don't like what we have we think what we have is dirty and it's not. Find our message to the African diaspora living on there. What is the message for them? If you have something to tell your fellow brothers and sisters living over there, what are you going to say? Yo okay I hear a lot of people tell me the same thing over and over that Ghana's not ready Africa's not ready for people to come back right and my question to you guys is if you over there how do you expect it to be ready because a lot of you guys have the skills the trades the ambition the knowledge to come and fix this place if you're waiting for somebody to fix it so you can come who's gonna fix it and the thing is this our parents they sacrificed for us to go over there and my mom sacrificed for me to go with it to get an education so you got a sacrifice for yourself to come here and help your people like there's people foreigners coming here looting our gold looting our resources only because people like us over there getting looted ourselves for all resources human resource you know I mean so I just tell everybody be patient with the people in this country because they're your people and there's no place like home and come back home and try to you know this let's all do this together because the more of us there is the more they can't come back and loot you know you know why I think coming in here tonight was worth it yeah I just want to say thank you so much for talking to me where can we find you if anyone is in Kumasa and they want to come do business there or maybe buy something from the work and they find you okay well we'll call barbecues city and we're in can you ST compass basically address the news site so our phone number out there real quick 0247084437 0247084437 and yeah you can find us here or just whenever you come to can you ST just happen to ask somebody I'm sure somebody will somebody must have heard of us and they'll direct you to the right direction you know thank you so much thank you to him went to God and I were mackin up went to God and I were mackin up