 Good morning. How are you all doing? It's your favorite village boy Mr. Ghana baby right here. It's a very busy morning in Ghana. Stacking traffic in Accra. I'm very late. I'm on my way to the German embassy which means I'm going back to Germany tomorrow but I don't have a visa. Can you believe it? My ticket is bought, my accommodation is booked but I don't have a visa. This is actually going to be the third time I'm going to Europe in a year which is crazy but how am I going to do this? I don't have a visa but I still have to go to Europe tomorrow. So I'm on my way to the German embassy right now. This invitation was based on my last visit to Germany. It was an invitation by the German government. I was the only YouTuber from Africa that was chosen and I think they really loved it and they gave me another invitation to host a couple of incredible people doing an amazing thing across the world. The CEO of Mercedes Benz, the owner of the United Bank of Africa, UBA. I mean there's an opportunity of meeting the Chancellor of Germany. I'm just incredible people man. Incredible people. Like I'm seeing the list and I can't believe that I was invited to do this. So yeah it's from the German government. There was no appointment. You know there was no appointment for the German embassy and I've been told that I need to come. I mean this was done by the ambassador, the German ambassador to come this morning and it's seven o'clock and I'm still stuck in traffic. I might be late because it's raining and at the same time there's traffic so the road we're definitely gonna be busy but I just hope that I just hope that they will give me my visa for today so that I'll be able to fly out tomorrow. So yeah come along with me. Let's go to the embassy. Let's see what's gonna happen but if you're watching this video please like this video see I've been through a lot. I've been through a lot man. You guys have no idea. I mean I've been away for a very long time not because I wanted to be away but life was dealing with me man. Life was dealing with me and I feel like one day I'll write a book. I feel like one day I'll be able to tell a story that most of you did not know. I feel like one day I'll be able to tell a story of behind the scenes of water maya what I go through behind the scene but I still I still come up with incredible content without even most of you noticing what is really going on with water maya and that's why I'm saying that if you watch these videos please like it. Can you just give me a like on this video? I mean yeah thank you and don't forget to subscribe if you are new to the channel and yeah let's go. Goodness can you guys believe it? Like I was going there with my PA this time around. I wanted to go there by myself because I don't want to be late but guess what? I'm lost. Like the location that I put in the map took me to another I think is the old German embassy and I've been there before I was like this is not the place. Now I checked the new location. It's 24 minutes away. There's traffic. I don't know man. There's so much traffic right now. I'm literally stuck as I'm speaking to you guys. I'm stuck. I'm still 24 minutes away. I don't know if you guys can see the traffic ahead of me. Good evening. Good evening. It's been a very very busy day. I mean if I said very busy day I was so busy that I couldn't even go for my own passport knowing that I'm traveling today. So thank God I have a PA. She went for the passport and finally I'm embarking on a trip. I got my visa in less than 24 hours. That's super crazy man breaking my own records over and over again. But yeah it's about time to head to Berlin but hey I just want to say something man. This shirt that I'm wearing I just got it and I just decided to wear it because it was more like a gift from my subscriber and because it's a gift from my subscriber I need to let him know that I really appreciate it. That's why I have to wear this. It's this is not the only shirt I think I got another shirt for Trudy and for myself but he added a letter and I've not opened it. I'm here to open the letter and then it's more like a card right. So we're all gonna read together. So the front page of the card is saying that we are a lot alike. That's the front page right and when you open it it's saying that no we are not no we are not and I like that a lot. Said the diaspora Charlie by Evolve that's the name. You are officially you are officially now Dr. Marcus Maya honorary PhD for being honorable. This shirt just called me Marcus Gavi so instead of Marcus Gavi she made it Marcus is it Marcus no Marcus Maya so the M squared that's interesting I want to say thank you so much I really appreciate this gift so much that's why I'm doing this on camera to let you know that I've got it I got it and I really appreciate it thank you. It's time to continue the journey I got my number one chief driver behind the scenes I'm just gonna leave her in Ghana so if you're in Ghana please just come and say hi to her you want to say hi to the camera hi guys it's so focused man so focused driving but anyway what is happening in Berlin I'm just going to tell you as time goes on yeah so yeah for now I'm so late like I don't know why I always go to the airport but you guys should come along with me I'm finally at the airport so late but uh I just have to what's up man oh gosh I hope I don't miss my flight huh oh I thought it's the other side ah hi I'm sorry thank you thank you thank you see that one you're down with yours huh yes we're not gonna give me Ali nice to meet you thank you man where you going oh I respect what you do oh thank you man thank you appreciate oh thank you yeah thank you good to see you too say say say something to my girl hi this is your favorite annoying village boy right here from 2nd Lee oh thank you oh no it's okay it's okay I understand I understand this is your favorite village where Mr. Garibaby right here or the Maya in the building and I just want to tell you guys I love you all and thank you so much for the love and support and I let what do you know I'm also a homeboy yes 2nd Lee yes 2nd Lee 3rd Lee no I do not know no I'm sorry I'm telling you to them right please do please do where you where you hiding you and Dallas Texas oh okay say hello to everyone I mean you need to come back you know to be nice I will say I've had this business for like almost three years now you have never been yeah you need to come come to downtown Texas and you will love it it's so beautiful out there thank you and I can't I can't wait to host you in my house you watch my videos yeah I do I do I do I do so please do come back I will I will you love it I will thank you bring your family I will I'm gonna let the guys know that you promise to come back no I hope so this guy I think this is actually the third time I'm seeing you and how many times have you made me streetie tongue god finally landed safely in Berlin Germany I got my bag and yeah I need to go look for the ATM get some cash and go get a taxi to my hotel so yeah I'm here I don't know where the ATM is so you know I couldn't get an ATM machine to take the cash maybe there are ATMs but I don't know where it is then I came to the corner I'm like can I use card or cash you can also use card like wow nice that's so cool man let me tell you one thing that I really love about traveling in Europe the fact that even though my visa is from Germany but I got stamped in Amsterdam which is not Germany right and at the end of the day when you land in Germany no one cares no one cares about you just take your bag and get out of the airport no one is there going to stamp your passport again to welcome you to Germany when you get stamped in Amsterdam that's okay now you can move anywhere and yeah when I'm going back I will not guess I might get stamped here or get stamped in Amsterdam once again so basically I think this is one of the things that I feel like it's so cool whilst traveling in Europe and I wish our people can learn from this instead of when we travel we just have to get business from each and every country knowing that the country is just 30 minutes flight away from the other it doesn't make sense man it doesn't make sense we need to have free movement of people and the fact that I'm in Berlin and I'm talking about free movement of Africa is crazy because this is exact same city that Africa was partitioned so first assignment is to go and find where Africa was partitioned in Berlin I mean where the Berlin conference took place so yeah I'm here I'm here it's about time for me to go check it out to see exactly the same place that that movement went on without any single African so first day in Berlin I don't know if you guys know this guy but I'm gonna tell you more about him the time the time we did school there are the hunger you know hunger my mummy they sell only kinky we they don't get money anywhere so if we kinky only we get so morning are the chop kinky after you're the chop kinky if you're the chop kinky if you are tired of eating kinky and you mash up if if you think you're tired of that too you know the the the water around after they bore the kinky the water around it now on to the entire you will call it pump produce in today so I was just tired of kinky man options yeah it's just like to understand that you know when I came here I told the guy I hope you don't have kinky I don't want because I chop kinky man I see kinky safer I don't want then with this question you know in mummy they sell like watchy I'm like wow watchy you know they add some fresh fish to it man you know get well later and so I can't be like sunny be like you too if they like me you know every day they chop watchy every day this guy go chop watchy don't watchy they chop every day why no one answer so I came up with a plan Charlie every day come with the watchy make a come with my kinky so when we come and then we swap the food so come and say Charlie take the kinky give me the watchy so my momina don't know why I didn't take kinky goes I will chop kinky for house before I go to school but I still take kinky local it's for sunny you know and sunny will take the kinky and will give me watchy sometimes I don't give you coco free coco don't go see the coco bonus exactly exactly most have already passed through bad situation than ours you know exactly it's live you know it's live it's just stages exactly from A you go to B can't jump from A to Z exactly what I mean yeah exactly we've come we've come a long way I mean we get busy sometimes but for me like I was telling no matter what I still know say I get friend call my son but say of my job it'll be hard like I come here belling from morning to evening interview so I see come it'll call me say what I do until I tell him say at the bed I finish are you just wait for me like you wait for me like more than an hour you know but now I'm tired I get back home Charlie mom for bed see who's there there's dogs we're trying to move around a little bit and uh he wants to I mean hire a car but this kind of car it's like a soft ride so you rent you ride and you repeat that's cool man I think I've done a video about this one young man in Ghana who brought this whole idea of serve drive just rented drive in an hour then you pay for it if you want to go for three hours you pay for it you want to keep the car for a day you pay for it so yeah that is the same approach that we're gonna but I love that the cars in here it's a different type of cars it just doesn't mean different type of car different prices no the same price the same price so he's trying to get this one I hope no one book it they have to go he's super green man I mean I think this is my first time seeing this city this green I think the last time I came it was not it was winter so that's why I didn't see that well but look at that it's so green Michael I just arrived in Berlin and my guy wants me to eat African food man I was not born how let me order for my food man this is a Ghana in German yes sir yes sir Ghana in Berlin Ghana in Berlin African kingdom African kingdom Yampa Aka Petun Apolli European Berlin is the most beautiful city in the world I don't know In Berlin, if you come come travel here Berlin I'm not going to be a celebrity. I'm not going to be a pop-up. I'm not going to be a pop-up. I'm serious. I'm serious. Welcome to Africa. Thank you. I'm going to go myself to Joffin. I'm going to go to Joffin. I'm enjoying the feedback so far with the people that I'm seeing. We're happy you're here also. Thank you. And one of the things that I really enjoy in here is the fact that you've included young people. That's the point. I think young people, diverse people, I mean, we look at the panel we just had. We had somebody from India, somebody from Indonesia, somebody from Africa on the panel. Together with an American. And I think that's, that was my life always because I was doing the G20, which has also been criticized for the last 10 years for Germany. But I like that working together, you know, globally with different cultures and different countries. And I think this is what we need more of. So this is the day one of the conference and we are just having lunch. Wow, it's a nice spot. And it's like, hey bro, watch our videos. Good morning. Today is day two for the Berlin Global Dialogue. I have an interview with the a South African Minister for Human Settlement. And I'm super late. What am I is always late by the way. But I love the fact that when I go to such event, I get an opportunity to meet incredible people across the whole world. I mean, I'm more focused on building a network for the future. I'm more focused on opening my mindset in the way I do things because my goal in future is not just YouTube. It's bigger than YouTube. So I'm trying to see how the world operates. I'm trying to learn how the world works and their own way. So yeah, I mean, YouTube has actually given me the opportunity to, I mean, go see the world. Go see how the world works. And I really appreciate it, man. Really appreciate it because the kind of people like yesterday, I saw the Chancellor. I met the President of International Bank of America, which is, which is amazing, man. Oh my goodness. What am I, let me know you're here. I'm not here yet, man. Jeez, I'm late. I think I need to stop recording and hurry up and just get to the location because I have an interview and I'm late. Nine o'clock. It's 8.34. What am I? What? The Ghana guy in the taxi is like, ah! Cross the road, let me knock it down. He was joking with me. But anyway, I have to... At the embassy room. Mate? Goodness. He's saying that like, I should go to the Ghana embassy in Berlin because when they pay for money, they don't give them the seats. So I should go and expose them for them. My goodness, they've been in Germany? I'm not taking that. Ah, not so good. Enjoy your ride to the event. Thank you. How are you? I'm good. Wow. I saw you at the truck and I said, I've known this guy from YouTube, man. Really? How are you doing? I'm good, I'm good. Good to see you, man. You're welcome. Are you based in Germany? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm from here. Oh, wow. But I'm in Nigeria, so... Oh. Your people. Yeah, exactly. You don't need to tell me. Yeah. So let me just make a U-turn. I hope. You just came because of the event? Yeah, I'm actually one of the hosts. I'm hosting an event this morning in there. Okay. I'm doing some of the interviews for the dialogue. Okay. So I have a program with one South African minister. Oh, okay. And I'm late, so I'm like, I just love it when I work in the morning. How is life in Berlin? Life is good. Okay. Berlin is getting more expensive. Oh. Because of... It's a very interesting city. Okay. Corona caused everything. And this war... It's... Yeah. But like globally. So maybe we'll have this short picture if you don't like it. Oh, no, I don't. No, of course, no. I don't want it. Come on. Oh, I make up that. I don't remember the last time I did this. What do you call that? Somebody. Yeah, so... It's our time. It's almost I have like 15 minutes more for the interview to go. Hi. You're from Nigeria. Kenya. Kenya, Habariapo. Trudy. Oh, my goodness. Oh. Trudy. That's my in-law. Oh, my God. No, let me hug you on behalf of my wife, man. Nice to see. Of course. Of course. Why not? Good. Oh, hi. Hi. How are you? Oh, nice to meet you. This is Minister. Oh, good to see you. Hi. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. I'll be having a good conversation with you. Okay. I hope you're ready for me. 10 minutes. I'm not going to take most of your time. Oh, that's fine. All right. Thank you. Okay, so we're setting up. Where is she sitting? Just right there. Okay. I'm so sorry. The guys just left me. The minister is here and I'll see you guys in a bit. It's really not easy. But one thing that I normally say whenever I meet African leaders like yourself, I'm like, it's been over 60 years since we had our independence. It's over 60 years since we had our freedom. But I mean, when you travel within Africa, it's a major challenge. You don't think it's about time Africans start traveling within Africa freely. Like the way probably you landed in Amsterdam and then no one, they checked you in Amsterdam and you got to Berlin without no one checking in here. You don't think we need something like that in Africa? We do have in the South African region, for example. Actually, the democracy came later. Other countries might have seen 60 years. We not yet 30 years as a country in South Africa. But when you look at freedom of movement within the South African region and what Africa has been able to do is to segregate within the regions. So you have more better movement within the region, but not fully in terms of the entirety of the continent. That's why part of the work that we're doing in the continent around Agenda 2063 and the FCTC. So trading amongst African countries to improve and that would enable movement of goods and people within the continent. And that's, I do believe that it's not going to be easy, but it will move. Remember, in terms of the conversations, even for example, you'd have some of the people who would feel when conversations such as de-tolarization comes in, they see it as almost like an attack to the West. Not seeing it as Africans as well trying to unite within themselves and finding common denominators. You can never have movement of people when your own currencies are not united. So it's the same thing. You look, you come to the European countries. There is a euro which makes it easier to trade within European countries and it unifies them. So movement of goods and people would have to go within the currencies and the ability to be able to trade means that within your currencies you've got to be able to deal with it. When I go to Ghana, I find a different currency. You come to South Africa, you find a different currency. You go to Nigeria, you find a different currency. And it makes it difficult in terms of those movement closing down and opening up of the borders. But the challenge is as well. Sometimes we look at it in terms of security issues. You find that the insurgents of quite a number of things would have seen. South Africa recently got great listing. Great listing as a result that now you are starting to have a lot of people who are within the ISIS military coming in. And because most of the time, if you start talking about movement of people and removing the borders, you will see that that would be what is needed. But there is an inhibitor in the process. You allow for that movement to have unwanted people. Then you have some level of consequence in terms of your own economy being affected. Now you're back on the continent. And I know that you travel a lot within Africa. And one of the things that I always want to speak about is free movement of Africans within Africa, free movement of goods within Africa. Do you also face the same challenges while traveling within Africa? There is one example. I was in South Africa for many years and then I had to go to Morocco every two weeks. You know how to get from South Africa to Morocco? You have to go to Dubai. You know this. Or you have to go to Paris. And then I'm like, these are two African countries. There's a history, but it's not just these two, right? I tried to go from Côte d'Ivoire to Nairobi. There's a direct flight, but it's not at the convenient time, so then you have to go to Addis Ababa. It's difficult. So then when you talk about difficulty of moving people, you can only imagine about difficulty of trade. We talk about intra-Africa trade. But it's easier to get goods from Ghana to Germany than from Ghana to Africa. You know what? I had early morning sessions. I just interviewed two people. And I'm leaving tomorrow to Brazil. So I'm trying to go back, pack my things, and then in the afternoon I'll go out and vlog. But I just heard my name. Somebody shouted my name. What are my eyes? And I'm coming back. So I know he's definitely the one. He went to 10. He went to 10. Okay. He went to 10. He's packing. Look at him. Look at him. See. He's in a hurry. Mister, who do you hire? How are you doing? I'm good. You're making us proud, man. Bless you, man. How are you doing? Great. What's up, man. Great. Where are you from? Kenya. Mumbai. Yeah, Mumbai. I'm from Mathartha.old man. How are you? Good to see you. What are you doing? I'm actually one of the host for the dialogue god is going on so I just finish any morning session I'm leaving tomorrow I'm like let me just rush back park my things and then I like your content I like what you do man thank you man thank you oh I love that I love that I love that you want to turn yeah I turn I saw you say this guy man this guy oh nice I was just like I love your outfit classic Adana okay what is people nice to see your annoying village boy you're very inspiring village boy no they know I'm annoying the name is Trudy yeah when I first oh yeah tell them the story that dr. Adana she said are you what is why what is why okay yeah I told you because I don't know at the time the day that I saw you they could only be one truly there's anyone you know I'll be here right I knew you were here so when she came in I said today I was like yeah you what is why but I was about to give her a big hug I should go is who's what a I was like excuse me do not know what they the biggest African creator nice one truly and I'm home and I'm saying truly I come here I still say truly have you enjoyed the Berlin global dialogue so far so good interesting perspective I just came out of the seals dialogue and I came up with an idea that I feel like doing it in December in Ghana you know really yeah it's crazy I'm inspired by their conversation I'm telling you I feel like you know I wanted to do something like Davos but I feel like it's gonna be so big bringing all the entrepreneurs together under one umbrella but then with this dialogue you can actually have four people on the table let's say if it's realistic if it's agriculture agriculture health care it's health care then you sit like four of them on the table ask them questions go so that people will come and just listen to all these African entrepreneurs that they admire you know I love this idea I just got inspired I'm like yeah I just send it to my team please can we make it happen in December all day I'm coming please I'm what is peeps please make sure you subscribe to Adana's channel house of Adana you change your name again no has it been house of Adana no it used to be Adana and Davi's family yeah I kicked everybody out before I sign out I just want to say thank you it's a pleasure meeting you all these are the guys behind the camera and they've been starting all this one my one and only makeup artist all right bye bye thank you whoa the day has ended it was absolutely amazing the people that I met in here and one thing that I can take out of this whole event is the fact that everyone in this room is talking about Africa everyone all the sessions everyone is talking about Africa but there are no Africans in the room so this is what I'm gonna say that it's about time Africans know that they are so valuable because see the whole world depends on Africa and this conference definitely proves the fact that the whole world depends on Africa because I'm in this conference and almost every session that you go to there's no single session that you never hear the continent Africa in the room everyone wants to invest in Africa everyone wants to go to Africa but do Africans themselves know that the world or the global leaders meeting talking about them do Africans know this and this is why I think meetings like this are very important for Africans to participate you know so I think for me henceforth I think I'll be going for most of this meeting just because of what I want to achieve and yeah see I think all right can I say bye bye truly all right so I think my guy has been waiting for me for so long