 Are you proud of the African Union? No, I'm not proud of the African Union. I think it is a body that is weak. It is a body that is manipulated. It is a body that doesn't do the right thing. And we have seen the many conflicts that are taking place in Africa, whether it's in Sudan or Southern Cameroons or in Ethiopia. They are silent as silence can be. That is a body that must be revamped. How do we make Prof the AU chairman? Prof, are you interested in this role? Prof, how are you? I'm good. It's good to see you again. But this time, not in Nairobi. Yes. In Malawi. This is my country number 30, but I just wanted to ask you, how many African countries have you been? I think I've done 50 now. Wow. You have done 50. Why traveling in Africa in general? We've got to know Africa. When we say we are African, we've got to understand this continent and not understand her in the urban centers. You've got to travel to rural Malawi, rural Angola, rural Ghana. It gives you a feel of the country and you take the pulse and get to understand the people in their settings. What is happening? If you don't know the reason why we are here, I am here because of Prof. Even though my goal is to travel every African country, but I believe that I came here because of Prof. Because I believe in what Prof is doing. You know, I think the first time I met you, I told you I'm not a big fan. I was so bold that day and I told Prof, Prof, I'm not a big fan of you. Because I really want to know that with all the speeches that you've given across the continent, what are you doing? But after this meeting in Malawi, I'm your number one fan. Thank you. Tell them what you've done that they don't know in Malawi. What we are trying to do across Africa with Malawi as the hub is to marry our words with our deeds. We have been in Malawi, we've met President Chakwara, senior government officials, we have a delegation of over 50 people drawn from 13 different African countries and coming to Malawi and say, we want to invest in agriculture, we want to invest in education, we want to invest in technology, we want to invest in every sector, we want to green Malawi and that is what we are going to do, not only in Malawi, but across the continent of Africa to demonstrate to the world and to ourselves that we can do it and we will do it. Do you agree with Kwong Khuma that a black man is capable of managing his own affairs? Oh, without doubt. The disruptions notwithstanding I have no doubt in my mind that we are going to demonstrate to ourselves and to the world that we can feed ourselves, that we can run our affairs and that those who have been doubting us will be shocked at the manner in which we do it responsibly with pride and humility at once. You are demonstrating to the fact that an African can be an investor in Africa. Oh, yeah. You know, there is this idea which is misguided that an investor must be somebody who has come with bugs of money from Europe, America and China. That is misguided. These individuals who may come here, they may invest, but ultimately what is at the back of their mind is to benefit their countries. But when an African invests in Africa, he or she is doing it for the benefit of self but for the benefit of Africa and Africans and that in my view is sustainable. We must and we will stop begging because this is the mother continent. Tell me what is not here. From human resource to natural resource, from arable land to adequate rain, the most even killed weather anywhere in God's created world. I believe that when God was creating the world, he spent the whole time in Africa making sure everything in Africa and when he was tired, he was like, you know what, let me create Asia, let me create Europe. That is why every continent want a piece of Africa. But to me, I believe that Africa got no friends. Do you agree with me? Africa has very few friends. Everybody has always come to this continent whether they came as enslavers or colonizers. Africa has always been a hunting ground and they come to hunt and when they hunt, they take their courage to their part of the world. So we must be our own friends. Africans are very hospitable. We welcome everybody and in welcoming everybody, we are abused by them. So it is us who must now love ourselves and do things that are in our best interest and exercise the ghosts of low self-esteem. Exercise the ghosts of doubt. And if we do that, let me tell you Wadi Maia, this world will never be the same again. I travel within Africa and I believe that there is a problem with leadership in Africa of which sometimes I don't want to get involved because I'm still learning. I believe you've been to 50 countries in Africa and you will agree with me that leadership in Africa got problems. I don't know if you agree with me. Oh, I can't agree more with you. In my younger life, until now, I'm a martial artist and one of the greatest martial artists and philosophers is Bruce Lee with his art called Jidekunedu and he says that a leader must be agile like a martial artist, agile like water. If it is in a glass, it takes the shape of the glass. If it is in a bottle, it takes the shape of a bottle but it doesn't change. It can be solid, it can be glass, it can be liquid but it's still water. Leadership. A leader must have vision. You've got to see the big picture. Do we have such leaders? Whether it's in the political arena, you are a typical African, so-called leader. I don't use leader when I'm talking about African because it's an insult to the world. The problem of Africa simply stated is one of leadership. At the political level, remember post-colonization, we inherited systems of governance which are alien to us and the men and women whom we put into office or rig themselves into political office are individuals who on a scale of one to ten only three are interested in the continent of Africa or in their countries in a manner that is beneficial to the people. That is why we have no shortage of thieves in public office. We have no shortage of murderers in public office. We have no shortage of nepotists. We have no shortage of tribalists in public office and that is the single thing that we must sort out. The day we sort out the problem of leadership in Africa that is the day Africa will realize our potential and it must be done quickly and we must speak about and against it because if we don't, then these individuals, the gods will always try to destroy the continent for this generation and generations here to be born. You said they rig their way to office. Most of the time. So which means it's so real? Oh you have, I mean these fellows rig themselves into office, most of them and they manipulate the ballot box and when they manipulate the ballot box then they create resentment and when they create resentment they themselves become afraid of the population which they claim elected them into public office and that is tragic. Prof, you said African leaders are demigods. Yes. Why do you say so? You know they are demigods because most of them want to be worshipped rather than to serve and let me say that they are quite a number of African leaders who are good. There are people in Africa and they are there and they have been there who have had the continent at heart but the tragedy is that they are few and far between. When we talk about leadership we are talking about politicians. We are talking about so-called elected politicians in many countries. These are individuals who go to office on the promise that they are going to deliver and as I've said before and I repeat it again, one of the shortest avenues to acquisition of material wealth is the political arena in Africa and that is why we see our agriculture is not doing well, our education is not doing well, our health sectors are not doing well but in the few countries where leadership is committed you can see that things are happening in a proper manner and there are quite a number of countries in this regard. You go to Tanzania you see some good work is being done there in Rwanda some good work is being done there in Botswana some good work is being done there but there are few and far between. We want an Africa that works an Africa that functions an Africa where people go into office because they want to serve not to be served. That Africa is the Africa that we are now running around the continent and telling leadership and urging leadership to create with our help. Do you believe that there is elections in Africa something we call free and fair elections in Africa? There are very few. The single free and fair elections there is a fiction in many African countries it is a fiction because elections are manipulated either through ethnicity or through bribery and the people's will is manipulated in that way and that is why you are beginning to see a ground swell of resentment popularly elected leaders being removed from office through coup d'etat the coup d'etat is the language of the unheard not that one wants unconstitutional changes of power but when those in power claim to have been elected and they are not elected and they use public office to serve themselves and to serve past colonizers then coup d'etats and unconstitutional changes of power become inevitable. Prof currently there is a lot of coup d'etats happening in the western of Africa and do you think that is the way forward? It is not the way forward but it is inevitable and you can see that happening particularly in the former French colonies one of the worst colonizers in the history of the world are the French and even when they pretended to leave they still remained and are manipulating the economies of this country and we have seen coup d'etats in Bukina Faso in Guinea, in Mali and now in Niger and young men in the military are saying because the civilian population is helpless we are coming in to intervene for the purposes of cleaning up this mess do I support it? Yes because it is inevitable because that is the only way do I support their continued remaining in power now they are simply midwifing a process and creating an environment where changes will begin to take place in a proper manner and begin to have proper elections and begin to inject some civility and hygiene in the conduct of our affairs but sometimes I feel like they can't mean that we want to help the people as soon as they taste power they will be like you know what I want to be there forever that is a danger that is why civic awareness is very critical remember that when you taste a little power and you are not humble then you become drunk with it so it is the duty of the population to be vigilant and vigilance is what will tell the coup makers that if you joke this time round we are not going to sit there we are going to come out in the millions and your guns will become hopeless and useless in the face of mass rebellion Are you proud of the African Union? No I'm not proud of the African Union I think it is a body that is weak it is a body that is manipulated is a body that doesn't do the right thing and we have seen the many conflicts that are taking place in Africa whether it is in Sudan or Southern Cameroons or in Ethiopia they are silent as silence can be that is a body that must be revamped is a body that must have men and women who are crusaders men and women who are not cowards men and women who are prepared to sacrifice for the continent is a body that is crying for change currently EqoAsc came and they said they want to I mean go for war in Niger I mean I feel like Niger actually needed support not war but you know that the decision that were being made by EqoAsc and I'm very happy with the Nigerian Senate telling their president straight on we are not going to allow you to send our men and women to fight their brothers but you could see the Terranian manipulation of France and the United States of America and the people came and said we don't want war people in Nigeria told their president we do not want war our Nigerian brothers need support but it tells you how African bodies are susceptible to manipulation by foreign powers who want to have their dirty work done by our own asking brother to rise and fight against brother sister to rise and fight against sister we must always remember that they are fifth columnists in our ranks and is our duty to identify them so that they do not become Trojan horses to destroy us based on popular demand we want to make you the new AU chairman I'm not joking the youth of Africa like you have so much influence on the continent I posted a picture with you and everybody is like I think you have made it to life just like taking a photo with Prof and somebody commented that can we make Prof the AU chairman Prof are you interested in this role? My view is Africa needs sons and daughters we will serve her if Africa summons us to serve we will serve Africa we are looking for people who are ready to serve Africa and I believe Prof can serve Africa Prof I want to be your main campaign manager getting into the AU house Are you okay with that? I just got a new job I just got a new job Prof it starts today the video gets uploaded and you all need to how do you get people into AU? I need to do research about that I believe that everyone watching me right now agrees with me let me know in the comment section should we make Prof the new AU chairman the number one fan in here let me know in the comment section I'm just going to put all the links that will make it possible Prof we are getting into AU Prof doesn't have enough time My last question if you have a message for Africans Africa must be great and she will only be great if her sons and daughters make the decision to make her great and we must make her great in governance, in agriculture in health, in education and we must eliminate the many boundaries, eliminate the visas, create one currency Africa must unite Prof it's so expensive to travel in Africa Terrible Why is it so? Because we don't travel if you don't travel then the businessmen want to make money so one of the things that we must do we must have Africans travelling within Africa but even though we love to travel but there are so many visa restrictions that is what we must eliminate no more visas I want to travel from Dhaka Dhaka to Nairobi No visas Thank you so much Prof Prof has a meeting I would love to continue this but don't worry we are going to continue this interview in another country Thank you all so much for watching don't forget to like this video subscribe and be part of this awesome channel popular request let's make Prof the new AU chairman because I believe that Africa deserves him