 I'm not stopping this work anytime soon, you know what? It's exciting to see that Africans are listening to me. It's exciting to see that Africans are building Africa. It's exciting to see that the diasporas are moving back to the monoline. You know what? I've been telling you guys that Africans will one day take control of their own narrative and it's happening. The revolution is happening. It's about time you get involved. Listen, give me that song. I'm in Burundi, my country number 27 in Africa. But hey, when you go to the internet and type Burundi, all you see is what poorest country? But guess where I am? Does this look like proofing it for you? What's up? You make that? Uh-huh. You've been hiding the truth. And who wrote this? It's a young guy, just 31 years, who used to go off an edge, move to Australia, and return back and rebuild his own country. It's not just rebuilding his country, but it's impacting lives. It's not just impacting lives, it's employing people. It's not just employing people, it's giving hope to the youth of Burundians and also to Burundians in the diaspora, a round of applause, man. Can you do me a favor? Like this video now, because I know that you will be inspired with the message in this video. So I want you to like this video, subscribe to be part of this awesome channel, and do me a favor, share this video so that all this can have a piece of this. Come along with me, let's go. My brother, you've done something that the whole world think it's impossible to do it in Burundi. You've done something that I believe that even Burundians, things are impossible. How does that make you feel? Oh man, it makes me feel like I'm a champion, and it makes me feel so humble. Just because I proved, I wanted to prove to the world that Burundians, they are just amazing. And Burundians are capable of doing anything. Just as the first gay child community in Burundi. How did you come up with such a concept? Thank you, man. Thank you. Me, I've got a long story, but just to cut it short, it was only in 2015 when I went to a country called Eastimo, and I was doing so amazingly in Australia, because me I'm a diaspora from Australia, I've been there for more than 15 years, and I remember I was going to perform because I'm a musician. And I requested them to pull up the Burundian flag before starting to perform. So as I'm looking at the flag raising, I feel like God told me, go and do what you're doing for this country, for your country. And all of a sudden I took a flight, come here, I came here after 2015 when there were demonstrations here and there, so people did not believe me that I'm coming. And I came, and I started a company called Come and See Burundi. Okay. As you can hear from the name, I wanted the world to come and see Burundi, the beauty of Burundi, the beauty of Burundi, because this is a hidden paradise, my friend. I'll show you Burundi, Burundi is amazing. When I came to that time, it was a revelation that Burundi needs to be built by Burundians, no one else. And then I came up with these ideas, I started thinking to develop a village, a ghetto community without having any plot, no knowing where, but in Burundi. And then I started meeting people, telling them I have this dream, I want to do this. You know, it's going to help the country and they went like, this young man is mad, you know? They told you that I am mad. Oh yes, they, seriously, I even wanted to do it in Gitega, which is another city, and they ended up saying that I'm a thief, that I'm mad, that, you know, I need to show them the money that the white man has gave me. And I told them, come on guys, you see, we Africans have to support each other when the African, starting from Burundi, support each other without any doubt, we're going to colonize the whole world. I want that sentence again. I want that sentence again, rephrase that sentence. When the African starts supporting each other without any doubt, we're going to colonize the whole world. A big round of applause for Fabrice, man. Thank you, thank you. So it's about time African starts supporting one another. Absolutely, absolutely. What do you think is going to happen? I mean, apart from colonization. Yeah, you know, it's a long way to go, but we started. Now when you look at people like Nelson Mandela, we look at people like Patrice Lumumba, we talk about people like Rwaga Sori. We have to be like these heroes. You see, the Africans, we like to be kind of pushy back, like, you know, that's for those. No, no, no. This is the time, my friend. This is the new era for Africa. So all the diaspora, all the diaspora, Braumians, all African diaspora come back home. Let's build and let's showcase what Africans come up with. Because Africa, you see, when you go in history, Africa used to be the superpower, the global superpower. We talk about somebody like Masa Musa, who was the richest man in the world, like in history. But then where did we go wrong? You know what I mean? So let's wake up, my friend. Africans are sleeping lion. Somebody's poking in. It's about to roar. If you look at this camera, if you look at my phone, there is a mineral came from Congo. If you look at, you know, a plane could not fly. A television could not work. We thought a mineral from Congo. So those who've been stealing from us, time is over now. The African lets you unite and let's go colonize the other side of the world. You see what I mean? Because we had a great leader whose name is Momagadafya. This man has a great dream. He had a great dream that he wanted Africa to unite. Now I want you to imagine, I want the Africans to imagine. Imagine United States of Africa, one army, one army, one currency, boom. One people. No, we're actually the same people, but you travel across Africa and realize that we're just same people that were divided by our colonizers. But anyway, I want us to go back a little bit more. You move from Australia back to Burundi. Yes. Were you born here? Yes. Correct. Did you grow up here? Yes. And at what point did you leave this country then? Thank you. Now Burundi had been recolonized by the vegans after the Germans. And then the one who started, you know, bringing all these theories, the Hutus and Tuzus, just nonsense. Now Burundi has been having a civil war for quite a while and it was born during the civil war. So in 1993 here, the civil war broke out and I was only one year old. So my family and I, we fled to Rwanda refugee camp. And when we got to Rwanda, everybody knows the story of Rwanda in 1994. The genocide, which actually described it as a Holocaust, you know. And then what it is, is that we had to flee again from our refugee camp in Rwanda, fleeing to Burundi where everything we had had been destroyed. So we came here and we started from zero. So I always say, I've seen my parents coming from being zero to being my heroes. And when I was, you know, eight years old, unfortunately all my parents died. So I grew up as an orphan. Wow. Now I became miserable. I became zero. I literally had no vision because I'm the last child in my family. So my other siblings here, they get married when they're young. So there wasn't anybody who can hold my hand, you know. So it became a misery, it became crazy. But then I stayed up and I do thank my sisters because they helped me to stay at school. And you know, I became a street boy, I give up school. It was so crazy. I go to the point of sniffing petrol. What? Yeah, sniffing petrol. So that means literally. Don't stop me. Did you sniff some gadget? I'll tell you what. It was terrible. It was terrible. What are you doing? I was only eight, transferring to nine. Yeah. So what it is, is that after that, my sister who was in refugee camp came here to visit. In Tanzania, because after fleeing from Rwanda, my older sister couldn't come back to Burundi, so she fled to Tanzania of the refugee camp. So when she heard that I became an orphan, she requested, she demanded my other siblings to send me to Tanzania of the refugee camp, that would might get, you know, visas. I would might go to someone protected. So I went to Tanzania of the refugee camp, I went to Tanzania of the refugee camp and I thought it was going to be great, but it ended up being terrible. In a Tanzania refugee camp, it was hell. There wasn't food, you know, the UN used to bring us food for, thinking that it would only, it would last us for two weeks, but it would only last us for one week. So for the rest of the time, we had to go and work for the locals. And the schooling system was really poor, you know, you would end up matching our school for more than 50 minutes by food, you know, and there's no electricity, there is no dreams, you don't work out thinking that I'm going to jail. And think about witchcraft. And because most of the people who fled has been suffered from this mechanism of ethnicity separation. So the hate was so severe in there. It was so great, you know. So I've been there one year, but it was the terrible time of my life, you know. And God does great. We got interviewed by a country we never knew anything about. We go interviewed by Australia and they accepted us and let me tell you something. You see, me, my parents named me Fabrice. But if you go my identity, you'll find Diodone Manila Kaiser. Why? So because I had to break into Tanzania refugee camp from Burundi. So I had to become somebody who was Diodone, did not exist. And you see me right now, I don't even know when I was born. I don't know my date of birth. If you look at my documentary, documents, it said 31st of December 1991, which means everybody celebrates because some of the people who were born were raised because some of the new years live, you know. So me being in a refugee camp, it was just that terrible time. Now, when we go interviewed by this Australia, there was a huge challenge which came when I couldn't pronounce my dad's name. Because he died when I was really young, so I couldn't remember his last name. So the white man says, you know what? For this woman, you are still in this child. Therefore, we go to do a DNA test and see if it matches. Now, the people from refugee camps started saying, oh, it could not match, it might not match. So it was the time we called God and said, please reveal yourself to us because we can't go back to Burundi. Our life is on a finish line. And by God grace, we go accepted by a country we never knew anything about. And funny enough, there was a huge community of people refugees who, because they, you know, the education system, most of them did not get that chance. So they started saying that we shouldn't go to Australia because white people eat black people. And they said we couldn't go to Australia because they would make our body, they would make soap out of our body. Or we might end up watching white people's dogs. And we say, you know what? We would rather be killed by a stranger than our brothers and sisters. So we took that risk. And we went to Australia and I'll tell you what, I've been describing it much more like coming from hell to heaven. The life in Australia has been so good. We've got a good education, you know, development. Me, myself, I'm a rapper. I started my music career. I started my motivation and inspiration speaking. I've been around. Motivating people. I've been the first Burundian who done TEDx talk. So which became a session. I've won so many awards. But then it was just that call, man. Like I'm doing all this amazing thing for this way developed the country. And it was, as I was telling you before, it was when I went to East Timor and I was received by the president. I was like, oh, man, I was treated like Jay-Z there, man. You know, it was just so great. And then before me performing, I said, put the Burundi flag up. And as I was looking at it being raised, there was an angel of God telling me, what are you doing here, son? Go to Burundi. Go and develop my country. That's how I ended up coming to Burundi. And my dream for Burundi is to transform Burundi, to become a utopia, to become a world sensational country, to become on the top. Because I'll give you an example. This is CSB village. It holds a value of 10 billion Burundian money, which is about five million dollars. There is no white man money here. There is no Western idea here. This is me thinking. This is me drawing structures and strategies. This is me telling Burundians we can. If you don't believe that, let me prove it. You came up with the idea. Did you have money that time? Did you know where the money was coming from for you to start a business? No. No. I did not have money. I did not have an idea. But then I just sit down and say, how does it work now? What I want to prove to the Africans. I always look, I love to talk about Bible because I read Bible so much. The wisdom which was given to Solomon, it has been given to all of us. But who has that time to give it to God and say, God, please, lead me? Because we are too busy. The world has become so busy. We don't even get time to talk with God. So what I did, it was to sit down and think about it. And then I started putting stakeholders together. Now this bank, the bank which is financing the clients, it's a Burundi's bank, a local bank. Now the problem that I wanted to solve, it was for the diaspora. Now the diaspora, me being the diaspora, I used to send money to construct the houses here. And it was disappearing. I have my sister who sent more than 400 million Burundian money. But when you look at the house now, it doesn't even worth 100 million. And I say, look, I'm going to heal myself and I'm going to heal others. And then I came up with this idea. Everybody thought I was crazy. But I knew it was going to work because I had clients. I had clients and that's when I went to the bank and said, you know what, simple. You sell money, right? I'm going to give you clients. You give them loan and I'll beat them houses. And they say, hang on, that could work. And then we tried it and it worked. But they did challenge me at the first because they say, you know what, we need you to do roads first. So I did the roads first and it had, it painted, they put it in painting for more than a year. When I was in Australia. So I literally thought, you know what, everything is going down. I had to fly here in 2019. And it was only when I landed here with my return ticket when I started hearing people talking about COVID. And I was like, what the hell is COVID? And then I started hearing the crossing the borders. So I ended up getting locked here. And I think that's a mission of God because God locking me here allowed me to do this. So now I've gained so much experience. I've learned how my partners think. I've learned how, you know, the experience I've gained is just enormous. So me being locked down here, it's just been great. So what I help with my clients, if you have plots, I build for you. And if you have money, you bring money, I build for you. If you don't have money, I'll take you to bank and then they'll give you money. When they know that it's me building, it would be easy for you to get processed. So I tell everyone, come and see Burundi, come invest in Burundi, come and build in Burundi. Can I see one of the rooms? Absolutely. Thank you. Look at these houses in World Forest Country. No way. He's a Burundi and lives in America. And he was about to invest outside. After all you look, Burundi's the place. I'm so glad you came back to Burundi to support another brother's business, which is something commendable. But I just want to know, you live in America. Why do you want to invest back home? Okay. First of all, I'm proud to be Burundian. And I feel proud. I feel like we can change some mentality of people. You understand? Yeah. But for me, I want there just to work, not to live there, because I don't like to be there. So that's why I decided to invest back here. But some of us, when we go, we don't want to come back. If not met anyone like that who went abroad and you're like, hey, I give up on Burundi, I'm never going back. To go outside, I think there's a reason, two reasons to make people going there. There are some people who went there just to live there, because they don't want to live in their original country. And there are others who just went there just to find opportunities, you know, because there's a job up there. But they know like, you know, no matter how long I'm going to stay there, I have to come back to invest back home. And that's why I want to say thank you so much for coming back. We're so glad that you brought American dollars to support Burundi. And I appreciate you. And on behalf of Fabrice, thank you. I would say this is your first successful project in here. Was this the first attempt? No, it wasn't. I've tried more than one and it failed. How? The first one I tried was in a place called Yabugete. And the place wasn't so pleasing for me because I was trying to get it off the government. And we went to Gitega where I was received by the government. And they showed me the plot. We invested so much in it and it couldn't... They ended up saying I'm there to steal people's money. So I literally... they kicked me out. Wow! So this plot belonged to the bank which I had a partnership with. And I told them, look, if the Gitega doesn't want it, why not start here? And they said, let's do it. So that's how we ended up coming here. So this was my third attempt. And the bank did not kick you out here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the challenges were so great. But you know, it's much more of... You fall down, you learn how to get back to your feet. You don't suppose to stay at the ground. It's much more of coming back to the feet. Do you believe in starting small? I do believe in starting small because I did start small. But I believe in starting small by having a bigger vision. When you want to make a change, change everything. Apart from this, now this is Soda. Yeah. Is there any other project you're doing? Yes. Yeah. Right there, just at the front of you. Come and show you. Dude! But I tell you, come back next year. You might have 10 Gated community in Burundi. This is my second project which I called the second phase. And we are developing the first Burundi townhouses. So we are doing about 18 townhouses. And this is in our fourth week. And guess what? Already sold out. Already sold out. Already sold out. How many people have here employed? So right now, we use about 300 people a day. And on our most popular days, we employ more than 500 people a day. So by the end of the project, we might end up providing more than 100,000 employment. At the end of the day, this project is built by Burundians. Yes. Led by Burundians. Burundians. Financed by... Burundians. Yeah. You are an inspiration, man. Thank you, man. Thank you very much. See, coming in here makes me want to cry, though. But I don't know how... No, don't cry. No, but I don't know how you feel because... See, I mean, imagine if there is no project like this. Yeah. But all these people will be working on it. And I'm so thankful because now even the government has come on board. And I love it because even the president has seen what I do. And he's a great supporter. So I think now this is just a dream. This is just a pilot project. So within four years, coming back to Burundi, my fans will be with beautiful houses. Beautiful people. Everything good. I really love the fact that you practice what you preach. Thank you. This is Dangote Samet. Yeah. Your whole project... The whole project is built by a semen from Dangote, Mr. Dangote. To support in an African business. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Africa has to be supported by Africa. And I can't wait. I can't wait to invite Mr. Dangote to Burundi. Dangote, this guy is inviting you to Burundi. I invite Mr. Dangote to Burundi. I will host you. I will welcome you to Burundi because look at it. All we see is you. All this building is built by your semen. I really want to know what has been your biggest challenge on this journey? The biggest challenge I have faced was people did not believe me because I'm young. So they thought, you know, young people are incapable. And the other challenge just been challenged by Africans. Look, you see, the first project, the bank which I was working with, they kind of turned around and say, hang on, maybe we need to pull Fabrice out. But then I don't blame them because we all suffer from the trauma of the colonial system, from the trauma of the world, you know, which is the message I want to send to the diaspora who want to invest back home. Don't think you're going to come to Burundi or to your country and expect it to be like America or by the US. You won't work to the office and they will give you the paperwork at the first minute. No, but you have to understand to change the game, you must be in it. You know what I mean? So that means all the challenges I have faced, it was just, I don't blame people. I think that's the way it's supposed to be. And if you develop a business and don't face any challenge, that's a failure business. You regret coming back? I don't regret coming back. I love being here and I love just to see people happy and I love to think that when I die somebody will tell someone Fabrice has made a change. So it's all about legacy. Correct. Fabrice, if you have the chance to change one thing in Africa, what will it be? Mindset. Mindset. So first of all, I think Africans need to support each other. Because as I said before, by the time Africans believe themselves, believing in ourselves and support each other, we're going to change the world. And what you see I'm doing here, this is just a start of the finished product. And I'm just so glad because I know most of people, we got the same mindset. We just don't get the stage to showcase it. So I want to create the stage. If I have been lucky enough to be where I am, I want to create a path. A young man from a Burundian young man in Australia, a Ghanaian young man in America can say, you know what Fabrice has done it. I'm going to do it too. Fabrice, I just want to let you know that you're an inspiration. Thank you. I'm so glad to meet you. Thank you. I'd love to be your friend, henceforth. Thank you. For sure, forever now man. I really want you to go, but the final thing is like if you have a message to the youth of Africa. Yes. Listening to you right now, what would that message be? The message to the youth of Africa is let's go beyond what separates us and meets on our common ground. The common ground is we need to make the United States of Africa, no matter what it is. Now we have to understand, the history has been written and it's not so good. So we need to write the new history and this is the beginning. I want to say thank you so much for talking to me and I really appreciate your time. But if someone is from Burundi living in the diaspora or any African who wants to own a home in Burundi, can I trust you that you're going to deliver for them? Absolutely. I mean this is the proof. If any Burundi are out there or any African, either we want to invest in Africa. Now we are wanting to open a branch in a different region here in Africa. Come to us. Come to us. We have happy clients. You've seen them. We are doing everything that we can. So if anybody wants to build their houses and not just houses, if you want to start your project here, if you want to start your company, I've seen how it all works. So welcome. I'm here to help you. Thank you. Thank you very much.