 Welcome back once again to the YouTube channel, it's your boy Mr. Ghana Baby and I'm back again with a mind blowing episode, you know what this video is mind blowing so I need a request, all I want you guys to do for me, you know what pause the video press on the share button each and every one of you needs to share this video to support the video that I'm going to do today because this video is going to blow your mind, oh my goodness you know what I'm sitting on coconut pot isn't coconut pot I don't know English speakers please if I'm mistaking I don't know the name of this and a young intelligent Ghanaian African guy converted this into a stainless charcoal this is stainless I'm wearing white for the first time can you see the blood no this charcoal is stainless you know what please help me share this video no I gotta I gotta kneel down you know what help me share you know the struggle because this brother story needs to be heard all over the world I'm inspired and I definitely know that you are also going to inspire with this brother story do me a favor like the video share and if you are new to the channel my name is Mr. Ghana Baby the one and only annoying youtuber in the whole of Africa welcome subscribe and be part of this awesome family let's hit 500 000 by the end of this month come with me let's go talk to this brother oh my goodness I don't know why I'm so excited because this guy is young because I told you that Africa needs an industrial revolution and look at what this brother did a huge factory Jesus Christ I'm so excited just you know oh my god no no I'm not going to meet you right now you know what after hearing this brother story I'm going to order 100 000 pieces of this charcoal and I'm going to force an each and every one of you when you talk of black life matter now it's black businesses matters I am Maya I don't want to talk too much I think I've taken enough of your time come with me and let's go talk to this brother the man himself come on man no you know like I'm so inspired thanks my brother I want you to inspire many out there I really want to know your story I'll give it all give me your story you need to start somewhere yeah anyway welcome welcome to zako welcome welcome welcome to zako wow this is our business this is huge bro thank you thanks so much no but he's so young can you give me age range age range not exact figure very elitist and you manage to establish something like this in Ghana yeah it's all started with a dream you know you're the biggest charcoal producer in Ghana possibly in west africa and maybe the whole of africa yeah by capacity brother yeah how how did you do this it all began with curiosity you know being curious and asking questions and that's how we go here I know you're passionate about what you do yes I am but something must inspire exactly inspired you you know it actually started when I was reading law and uh yeah I was a law student a law student exactly yeah I got so many cases I'm looking for a lawyer man I'll get you a good lawyer so it all started when I was a law student and then on the usual commutes to class I observed it all started on the osu off four streets so you realize that on every junction on that street there's somebody selling coconuts and then eventually you realize that the whole of akra you have so many people selling coconuts too so it all began with a question with these guys selling so much coconut what did you actually do with the waste and that's where the whole idea started coming up and then eventually I realized that they were all dumping the waste by the beaches and making our beaches so dirty I took a trip to the beach so what was happening there and then I just told myself something has to be done at the time I didn't even know what we could use the waste for but along the line I realized I got so much interested in this coconut stuff I even lost interest in reading law to concentrate on this and I think yeah in the final year I have to use the fees to actually start this hold on use your final year school fees yeah just start this business yeah yeah yeah it's not becoming a lawyer yeah yeah look your mom was not angry initially they didn't know about it but eventually they got to know yeah so that's how it started and then you know the whole idea began when one day we went to buy kenke we saw the kenke seller was using the coconut husk in her fire instead of firewood and that was when it really hits me like wow so instead of firewood she's using this coconut which is basically free everywhere and these guys are dumping it by the beaches okay so since firewood is raw material for charcoal can we also use the same coconut the woman is using to make charcoal I actually didn't know anything about charcoal I joined these guys and make charcoal in the north just to see how they do it came back to our craft and set up a small process in my house to see how I could convert these coconuts to charcoal wow I was so excited I was able to do it so you move from a small tin tomato can to a bucket within a nest we're in a barrel and that same week we had moved from just one barrel to like 12 20 barrels and we started burning you started making yeah the charcoal the charcoal in my in my house in your house yeah so where are you getting the coconut husk so I just spoke to a few coconut sellers that I needed you always eventually like actually didn't even know where to dump it so I was even a savior to them these guys will push the coconut waste from wherever and just come dump it in my house in your house yes yes I had a mountain of coconut in my house a real mountain actually Rod this story is inspired you know what there is something that I'm not understanding yeah you said you started with what a tin tomato can tomato can yeah a tomato can I should say you were putting the coconut inside yeah so I was experimenting how to burn charcoal so the process basically is burning something devoid of oxygen if you allow too much oxygen in it burns to ash so you control the oxygen flow and then you get charcoal so I had this little tomato can which was big enough and then we put some pieces of coconut in there will lead them up port sand to cover and prevent oxygen from going in it turned out very well but we had very little charcoal so the next day I moved to a bucket so the actual buckets were using in the house we made some holes in there and then we were able to get some more coconut which was still also very good but also very little so eventually we moved from the bucket to a drum a barrel and in the space of a week we had moved from just a tomato can to like 10 barrels and what were you doing all this all of this in my house in your house yes so how did you establish your first factory is this your first factory no no no no no no the first factory actually started in the house we designed a built our own machine we designed got it built in the abu bloshi where the metal guys are and then eventually we gradually moved to some site behind us we spoke to family they release some land and then some bits of the school fees actually bought some machines got some help here and there and then we set up a factory which is also quite somewhere in the bush so your your family found out after you established the factory yes yes yes that's when they realized this guy is no more going to class so welcome to the first ever zako factory ever built in gana so the first ever i would say charcoal factory it's impressive but you said it started from your house yeah which was your first machine that um this machine right here it's still here exactly yeah so we actually designed it ourselves yourself yes we designed it because when we got the mechanical engineer i'm not but i'm a very curious person so we designed this machine ourselves drew everything on paper how we wanted it to work and then went to abu bloshi where we have the old man that work on metals and then they built this for us we used it for some time and was good and then we had to upgrade and from this machine we moved to over there where all those blue machines you see so at the time we moved here the electricity situation here wasn't too good in fact there was there was an electricity in this part of town so we actually got this manual one where we started it you know yeah everything is manpower yeah we started it there's a diesel engine so you connect and then diesel power there's a cooler over there so this was the our grinder we use this so if you look at it we station we position them such that the same machine can power this and the same machine can power the other machines there you just connect the belt and then they work my brother you know i just want to know how many people started this business too or you started it all alone um first was myself alone i got in one more person and then got in some more people gradually we are about 12 people here but then we have so many people on the street collecting coconuts for us do you believe that africa is the future we already are and africa definitely the world can't progress without africa we are the future even from henceforth it's it's an understatement i interviewed somebody and he told me no africa is not a future come on africa is the present i think i agree with that too you know everything revolves around africa it's like when africa curves the world catches a cold yeah that's me yeah we control we control all the resources in the world not just natural resources but the human resources because the people on the continent are also very worthy yeah my man oh brother you know i don't know why i'm so excited to talk to you i wish i can spend the entire day on this youtube channel for people to know that you're always welcome i really appreciate you you're always welcome brother from a thing of what a tomato tomato card to this one it's incredible bro thank you thank you we really appreciate it how do you money to operate this one um so eventually we got family involved people didn't really believe in what we're doing i think they didn't really understand why somebody would risk himself to do chaco somebody with this passionate about chaco and the fact that people don't use it they assume nobody else does so eventually you have to fall on family members take some support here and there and then uncles aunties and then gradually we built this place and supported your family has really supported on behalf of his uncles and aunties i just want to say thank you so much thank you i believe that this is how africa is supposed to be exactly entrepreneurship yeah but in africa they tell us to go to school be a lawyer be a doctor and at the end of the day we end up on facebook and become you know i just want to know you cannot tell me that you just work up and started yeah to know this is definitely there should be challenges that you face as a there there's been loads and loads and loads of challenges tell us some of the i mean the most challenging one first of all convincing people that it's possible to even make chaco out of this was a challenge wow the second of it was as a young man you've been able to prove something was viable now how do you scale up to this stage where you're able to make enough revenue to sustain the business that was one big headache it's been a very long journey i think i went to every pitch event spoke to almost every investor i got in contact to but people didn't really i that's what i feel i feel like they don't really understand what we go through we've had we've had our machine installing we've had a lot of setbacks there's been a lot of tears you know a lot of tears we've cried a lot but we've also learned a lot in this whole process or this whole journey i would say it's been tough but i've grown to be tougher did you have government support not yet but it will come we look forward to it the government never supported you government support will come hopefully it seems he doesn't want to talk about that so you know like you just let us know like acquiring the land and all that yeah government support will come we believe once we are getting onto the market government will get to know how much we are so you don't like trust me maybe you want the government to support it's okay but we love to have government support an army on youtube who are ready to support like we love that it's by force you know what we are ordering 100 000 pieces today wow i'm gonna force it on them they don't know how we do it yeah you can't export yes we do export we do export um i'm gonna give you money thank you 100 pieces thank you each and every subscriber of mine you need to order the 100 000 if you don't order the 100 000 no new video thank you my brother no new thank you my brother this is the kind of support we need no we need to support people like you like you have no idea like i wish i can just come on man come on man like you live you live in the dream bro thank you like i said we need factories in africa i mean there are a lot of young africans watching us right now yeah if you advise young africans what will it be brother my advice has always been to just be different um i like this favorite quote of mine from sieve jobs he says why join the navy when you can be a pirate you don't always have to go where everyone is going you can have carve your own path and be the best at it we can't all be doctors we can't all be lawyers it can be different can you take us around so let me take you let me take you through your process here controls the entire factory from the input point to the output point to even the packaging line so you can see we have banner we have fans we have our prayers we have entry conveyors we have mixers everything is here we have sensors that detects everything so this controls the entire factory and this factory has a capacity of three tons per hour a ton is like a thousand kilograms and this place that's three tons every hour bro i would say that you're on another level thank you because i know that the local way of i mean getting a charcoal fire and you are showing me computers computerized production process yeah yeah yeah like i'm really impressed thank you i've got so many people watching us right now you have any message for them anything you want to tell them we can make it in africa only if we believe it's possible it all begins with a dream but we're all capable of achieving our dreams let's make it happen it's the only continent we have you know south africa nigeria we're all one people come on let's support each other imagine us exporting zaku to sa or nigeria and then maybe nigerians import we're bringing in whatever they produce we trade amongst ourselves and we grow together it's gonna happen sure sure this that is what we are in for and i know you're doing a good job prepare for it nigerians are gonna order people from i know especially jamaicans i'm gonna send this to jamaica united states uh no i'm sorry i can't mention all of you but to the entire caribbean you're shipping this charcoal but hey this is the episode that i really want to start for africans who never left the continent but they managed to make something big in here i'm impressed brother there's a brand called fugu i think we can start faba for africans by africans so much for watching this amazing episode don't forget to like the video it's very important and i said don't forget to share if this video don't get a million views i'm gonna be mad at each and every one of you watching this video so you have the responsibility to share i mean don't sit on it share the video tell your friends and family that there's a guy who is performing magic in africa and his name is amin don't forget to subscribe