 Hiaziaun radio hum Bendiku residents disti uha 비bun H Typically, kwa hzo Dzi kwa nabai N이� Licu Can this happen? So the moment those type of ideas come in your mind, then they weaken you at the end of the day you fell on what you are doing. But if people have come up with a network, you can speak to Ghana right now. There is nothing there, but you can communicate and know whom you are speaking to by the way. And the other people have made a plane to fly. Those are difficult things to do but they have managed them. So if other people have managed them, what difference does it make with us? Let's say I'm in Africa to celebrate African excellence and each and every African that I know or I meet along my journey needs to be celebrated. But out of the stories that I've been telling and showing you guys, this story will probably be one of my best stories ever. And anytime I want to tell you best stories like this, I want to follow up with the best song in the whole world. Listen, DJ, give me that song. From Cape Town to Cairo, Angola to Malawi, Wadamaya. I'm in Africa to celebrate every single African and anytime I tell stories like this, I don't just get inspired, I feel motivated. And listen, these are the stories that makes me believe in the dreams of Khamun Kluma that a black man is capable of managing his own affairs. Do you believe in that statement? Yes, I do. I just don't want to celebrate this legend all by myself. I want you to help me celebrate him by liking this video. If you like this video, it proves to me that you also believe that it's possible to make it in Africa. Why do I say that this is one of my best stories ever? This is one man born in the village, left to the city, made it in life, came back to the village and decided to transform his own village. Now they call it the Singapore of Africa. Well, Singapore is a small area which has developed in such a way that they have everything that they need. So the same concept which they have in Singapore, that's what we want to use here, that we have to bring all the needs to the people in this area. Brothers and sisters, welcome to Doa. Believe me or not, it doesn't matter where you're born. If you are born to be great, you will be great no matter what. Because this legend who is transforming his own village once went to school without shoes. What was the kilometers to school? 18 kilometers. You walk? Walk. Without shoes? No shoes. This same person drop out of school? Is it because your father couldn't pay the fees? Well, what had happened was when I did my business of exchange, I made 125 wajah. So because I made 125 wajah, then when I went back to school, I studied inquiry how much our teacher was getting a month. So I was told that he was getting less than what I had made. I went to the teacher and he presented my books and other school properties saying I'm leaving school because I want to become rich. And why do I call him a legend? For him to build an agriculture school in his own village to empower families is everything. It only takes a visionary leader to come up with something like this. Look at the name of the school. School of Agriculture for Family Independence. Kwame Unkuma we say independence now, self-reliant now. And that is the main goal of the school. See, for him to build a whole agriculture school to empower families is everything. And this school is for free. And what about the teacher? Well, what we do here is because we have people who have been helping the school with some funds. Then he comes in. We send tracks to collect his family and the goods of this school. So when he comes here, we provide a home with electricity and water. We provide a fertilizer seeds, whatever. Then he spends the whole year here. By the end of the year, after harvest, then he is asking just need to leave two bags of rice and the dishes be here. This legend is an agriculturalist. He believes in agriculture. Well, our economy is a grow-based economy. So being a grow-based economy, then have to take an important role in that area in order to boost the production. We are here already. Most parts of the country, they are learning short of food. So because they are learning short of food, it means somebody who can produce enough food, then he can make big money and survive on that. So that's why I am more worried in order to help at least support the world with the food. And one of his attributes that I believe that we all need to know is him being a philanthropist. I mean, his philanthropy work is on another level. He built a hospital for his community and he never makes a dollar out of it. Also a hospital. The hospital has been learning since 2003. I have not even managed to get a single cent from it. What do you mean? Well, I built the hospital. People get services, all the money which they get is paid to dogotas, it's paid for meat sales. And sometimes people wish as they help one way or the other, but despite I built it with my own money and everything, I have never gone to collect even a single cent since I built it. This whole village never had internet, but he made it possible. He took him 10 years to build his own manmade lake but he has never cruised on it because for him he was doing it for the community. You know that this is my first time to be on this boat? What do you mean? Your first time? That's my first time. Maybe I was waiting for you. And the reason why he is building a hotel next to the lake that he took him 10 years to build will blow your mind away. Well, the idea is we have people with money in town and the other areas of the world. But how can they bring their money here? So that's why I said I think I have to put up something which should be very attractive so that when people come with money, our local people now can manage to sell their oranges. They have bananas, potatoes, whatever they produce. Then by the time these people will be living in this area, back to their village, at least a small amount of money now our people will get it. What an incredible human being. Listen, do me a favor because I feel like the world needs to hear from this man or I feel like Africans across the globe needs to hear about this man. Can you please share this video? Like this video because if this video doesn't get 30,000 likes, no more new video. Because I feel like Mr. Napoleon Zombe or maybe Doctor Professor Napoleon Zombe needs to be celebrated by Africans and that's why I'm here. How do you feel anytime you see what you've done in the village where you're born? Well, I'm not yet satisfied because people are still living below average in their earnings. So I will be very happy to see people earning enough money that they can send their children to good schools, they can have enough food in their homes and they can go to better hospitals. I think that would make me happy but as of now I feel I have done nothing. But now you feel like you've done nothing? Yeah. The first house was here. That's where the first house was. So basically you were born here? Yeah, that's where I come from. Here? Yeah, I come from here. If this is where you were born? Yeah, well that's the place. What kind of house was built in here? Well, the first house was made from grass. Pose, then surrounded by grass. The roof grass. So even the rats would just go through it. Wherever they would need to go through it. That was the first house. So after that one, then we had to put some debt so that now the wind and the rats would not just be going anywhere. So from there, now that's when we came up with that building. Knowing that you come from here and what you've been able to achieve on earth, what is that one quote that comes into your mind? Well now, you know, everything has its own origin. So this is where I come from. Then after doing everything that I'm doing, I started thinking what can I bring back home and improve the area. So that's when I came up with it. So many ideas over developing this place. So the first thing was to bring the school of agriculture. Where people should get trained to modern skills over agriculture so that they can improve their livelihood. So I did that. So after doing that, then I said, okay, but still we need money. So how can we bring money here? Then I said we have rich people all over who may be interested to come and spend their money somewhere, privately. And if I can come up with something tangible, well-managed and beautiful, I think people would like to spend their money somewhere like that. So that's when I started building the dam. So I started building the dam that was in 2002. So after 2002, I had to break for some time. Then I came back to continue building the dam. So I've been building the dam for almost 10 years. So after that, then I said, well, here is the dam. But people will come, they will need to eat. People will come, they need to spend a night here. So what next? Then that's when I came up with an idea of building a hotel. So in 2019, that's when I started building the hotel. So now the hotel is done. Now I'm extending some other buildings. Then when I'm done with those buildings, now I'm planning to come up with a big conference center. After a big conference center, then you have to have small ones allowance so that even international conferences, one day they should come and get hosted here in my village. Since it's all started from here, I want to know how it's all started for you. Well, from the time I was born, we had challenges in terms of finances. So the hunger was not a question. It was our routine that we used to have it almost every year. So we had to move from here going to different parts of the district to ask for food to different places and leave it to us. Then I get bored saying, well, we are humans. What has made other people to be successful as they are? So I started learning business here and there. While I was doing that, I was also going to school. Then it happened that I was selected for secondary education. By then I had no fees. Then my father's sister said, no, we cannot let this guy stay here. I will provide a cow for fees. So a cow was sold. Then I went to school. So while I was at school, I started thinking, what will happen to my next grade? Who is going to pay for it? Is my father's sister going to give me another cow? I said, well, I need to find a solution for this. So because I wanted to find a solution, then I said, okay, father, can you please borrow 25 kwacha? By then 25 kwacha was equivalent to 25 dollar. So I said, can you borrow 25 kwacha? So he borrowed 25 kwacha, then sent it to school. Then while I was still learning, I went to a shop where they are making sales for the flower. My mother used the ball, saved from somewhere. So I said, well, in my village, we have a challenge of these things. So if I can buy them and bring them home and start battling with maize, reaching our people hard, I think it would be a good business for me. How old were you that time? By then I was something around 21. And you were 21 and you were going to? I said 20. That's when I started thinking about that. So when I came here and did that small business, that's when I went back to school to drop school, which I dropped when I was 21 years old. You dropped from school? Is it because your father couldn't pay the fees? Well, what had happened was, when I did my business of exchange, I made 125 kwacha. So because I made 125 kwacha, then when I went back to school, I started inquiring how much our teacher was getting a month. So I was told that he was getting less than what I had made, which he was making 115 kwacha. Yet I had made 125 kwacha within the same month. So I said, well, now I'm in Form 2 or Grade 9. So because I'm in Grade 9, then I will need to take 3 years to complete my secondary education. So after 3 years, I will need to go to university for another 4 years. Why should I spend all that time just to get 115 kwacha? I can manage to get more than that within the same frame time. So I dropped school. I went to the teacher and presented my books and other school properties saying I'm leaving school because I want to become rich. So everyone said, wow, you are the fullest in this school. Wait, wait. Everyone was saying you are the poorest. How was the poverty like for you? How was it? How poor were you that time? I was so poor that I could not even manage to buy good school uniform. Instead I had to find a second hand for school uniform and a second hand shade for school uniform because we could not afford to buy new. Were you going to school with shoes? That's the time when I started putting on shoes. I don't understand the shoes. What did you start wearing shoes? By the time when I was selected for secondary education. That's like 20 years of your life without wearing shoes? Without wearing shoes. We could not manage. When I came back from school, I had just two short trousers and two shades. That's what I had. So I had to be extending those shades. I had no time to waste. I had no time even to wash my clothings every day I was working. Until I managed to do what I was doing. Now we go back. You said you wanted to be rich. You send your books to the teacher that you are no longer going to continue. People were telling you that you are the poorest? By the time I was saying I wanted to become rich we were saying you were the poorest in the school. So how are you going to become rich? I said well where there is a will, there is a way. So after that even in my father he was very disappointed. Most of the guys were very disappointed because the second school which I was was the best in the country by then. So they said why can't you live in the second school? Being the government in the second school each has everything. I said well I need to become rich. So there is no time to waste. Let me go and do what I think is right for me. So I came back. So after I came back then I had asked the father if he could give me his cow because what I had used was his sister's cow but he had some cows. So he gave me his cow. I sold the cow at the 77 kwaja so I gave back to him one kwaja and made it with the 76 kwaja. Then I bought a sort. I started exchanging sorts with grandnats or what other people call peanuts. After six months of hard working then I made 770 kwaja from the 76 kwaja. By then a bag of a cry was passed kwaja and a packet of seed was followed kwaja so I bought two bags of fertilizer and 16 packets of maize seed. Then I had asked my father and the family to join me to grow maize. I went to another district to get some four guys on the contract but if they help me this is how much I will give them. So we worked. Finally we had harvested 63 kwaja after shelling some wheat it came up with 300 bags. So we sold. Then we ended up making some good man then now I said what next? I think now we have to start growing tobacco. By then tobacco more especially bad tobacco was a special crop that nobody was allowed to grow it without the licenses. So I said well as long as I know that tobacco is a good crop then I will try to grow it. So everybody in the area discouraged me that if I grow if I grew tobacco by then then I would be arrested. I said well why is he balloon and the other guys growing tobacco? I said they have licenses. I said how can a poor man like me get license? Is the license a block to prevent me from going to business? Let me just study it. So I grew my tobacco finally I had harvested 29 kwaja So a friend of mine did the favor he sold for me then I got 1,700 kwaja by then it was enough to buy even a 700 car. So I said well now I have to use this money to make the licenses which are required. So you started growing before you got your license? I think what the governments are doing all over they are buying the poor not to be successful because what they do is you are a young man you want to start a business so they impose on you that you have to have a license you have to lease your land visibility study you have to have environmental assessment you have to have all sorts of things so you are just starting you have nothing what is the meaning of giving all these to you? it means they don't want young people to develop but if they could say you are a young man you want to start a business we are giving you 5 years to practice this after 5 years we will just lease you for free and monitor you for 5 years so after 5 years then we will require you to do a BCD then the young men would be successful but these measures have been put in place by the colonialists the people who had colonized our countries to block us to be successful so that's why if you want to start any business they give you a lot of things to get done so that whatever you have should just be spent on those procedures then you are done, you fail so I think if Africa is to grow then they have to waive these things for somebody in the beginning so it means when you got your first money that's when you went for it your friend helped you get a license first I did what I did after doing that then somebody helped me to sell whatever I produced using his license so after I got the money now I had enough strength that I could meet all the necessary measures for the government so that's why I had made me successful but if I could say okay I have managed to get 770 kwa they need to get somebody to do survey for my farm it could cost me more than that and for somebody to approve whatever I wanted to approve I had to move from this office to that office it could take me all the money and leave nothing for me to grow my business so these barriers were are there deliberately so that they could control the growth of African businesses but African leaders they don't have an eye to see how these things come into practice you got your own license you had your own tobacco farm what happened next from there? now from there then my business started flourishing first year I had of my last year I had 163 bills of tobacco so from there 200 from 200 500 bills from 500 600 to 1000 bills of tobacco then I started buying trucks so after buying so many trucks now I started thinking what it has made Yulof to be more successful than Africa then now I had to set aside a certain amount of money to fly myself from Africa to Yulof was it your first time? it was my first time to go to Yulof so there in Yulof I spent almost 45 days just to see what those guys are doing then I discovered they are very successful because they add value to whatever they produce before they sell so I said well we have fallacies in Malawi we have a lot of low material in Malawi why can't I buy machinalies?