 He just met me and he's like I'm a big fan Where are you going now? I'm going to London you're going to London. Yeah, I'll see you in London soon. Yeah. Yeah. All right Good to see you. I think I need to put the whole family then Okay Good evening, what's up beautiful people it's a favorite village boy. Mr. Ghana baby and I'm on my way to Kigali and I have only 48 hours in Kigali And I want to show you how I'm gonna spend 48 hours in Kigali I don't want to come along with you guys But I think I need to show you where I am and where I'm going in 48 hours You also subscribe and I think it's gonna be an exciting vlog When I landed in Kigali, I believe that my 48 hours start now Even though I couldn't get my bag But one travel hack Always make sure you put an extra clothes in your carry-on. I go I lend this for my wife So a big shout out to my wife. So yeah, it feels good to be back in Rwanda One of my favorite countries in Africa I landed here with an ordinary passport, but the immigration officer saw me, you know, like, oh, that's Maya and they gave me a Diplomatic You know arrival. So I didn't go through the queue just straight For my passport to be stamped So yeah, let me just take you guys to my hotel. It feels special in time. I land in Rwanda. Yeah, but The love is still there, you know So I just landed. I'm not even checking my bag is still here and I just have to eat before I go to my room so This is the food for today food for breakfast And I'll go back to when I'm done eating Finally checked in in my hotel room after 14 good hours. This is gonna be my home for three days And yeah, I hope There's a lot that is gonna be happening in the next three days that I'll be able to share all the excitement Which you all whoa, this is so cool though Yeah, it's a huge TV I'm gonna show you the washrooms like me This is the part of what she wants like All right. So yeah time To sleep Good morning From Kigali today is actually my first day in Kigali and I have one more day to go My bag is still not here But lucky enough I had this clothes that my wife put in my bag That I should just put it in my bag in case of anything and this clothes was actually for a dinner gala That I know it's on the itinerary of the things that I'll be doing in the country But then it becomes a savior. So The program start today, if you don't know why I'm here, I'm here for Africa business heroes Africa business heroes is more like a foundation that was put together by Jack Ma Ali Baba in terms of showcasing local talent supporting entrepreneurs in Africa and also giving them more like a grant, you know, so it's a competition of 50 African entrepreneurs and at the end of the day, they're gonna select 10 of them and out of the 10 people they're gonna share 1.5 million dollars among the 10 people and I'm here. I mean, this is not the first time They've been inviting me for quite a long time and this is the fifth edition and I was like, you know what? I hate to decline things even though I've declined the first and second one but for the fifth one I really want to know what it's all about I really want to get the chance to meet some of the entrepreneurs across Africa because I think the previous one most of the Entrepreneurs that were featured in I got a chance to Interview them. They were most of them on my channel, especially Nava from Kenya and the shoes and this time around I Just decided to come in here to build network to meet African entrepreneurs from different part of Africa Yeah, so that is the main reason why I am here So I'm just going to have my breakfast pick up my phone and then just head to the Event Center and whatever comes up. I'm definitely gonna share with you guys Don't forget to like this video share to somebody subscribe and be part of this awesome family And I'll see you all in the next one. Come along with me. Yeah, I'm here Nice to meet you too Thank you You know, I feel like the whole It's like I would say that I want to be honest Yeah, I feel like 20% of row and these watches my videos man because from the airport Even walking in the street people are saying hi Maya. Welcome back and join You know Kigali which is incredible because I mean I still feel loved in here, but I mean being back in Rwanda people think I'm here for The gorilla naming ceremony of which I'm no, you know, everyone is like, are you going to Musanzi? Are you here for and I'm like, you know, I'm here for another purpose. So, yeah, I'm stepping out Going to the event right now. I hope I'm not late, but it's all nice working in the street of Kigali Feeling safe because this is the safest and the cleanest city in the whole of Africa Murahu Okay From Ghana Because the block stars many run this like a block star. They like blasters. Yeah. All right. You take some pictures. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nice to see My name is Hassan Hassan. Yeah, all the best man Maya. Maya. Nice to meet you. Yeah, you live in Rwanda? No, I'm just here for two days and I'll go back Yeah Visit Rwanda. It's your first time in Kigali. No, I've been coming. This is like 10 times. Oh for sure You know you like the country. Yeah No, I Kigali is super clean just Look around man. I don't know if you guys have seen it This is my feet walking. Let me let me just Show you details. You would never find even a single rubbish or maybe a single plastic The only thing maybe you could find is maybe A leaf, you know There's nothing you can't find anything on the ground You can't find anything And this is why I keep on saying the one that should be a model for So many African countries. So you see there's a flower And then you see a flower on the floor. That's the only thing you could find but when it took off right Plastics you won't find even a single one on the ground Not even a piece of paper Good you came back Okay See he thought he thought I was here To tour around and he decided to chase me just to come and you know take me around I love you man. Thank you roundies From a lie, how where you made it Oh my goodness, can I put a camera on you? Yeah sure sure cheese See I've been looking for you for years. Really and it's good to meet you in person, right? Nobody told you that I was looking for you No, I was the whole of Johannesburg looking for you at the clubs. I mean I can people Yeah, can you let me meet this guy finally meet? You know, I was looking for African entrepreneurs yeah, South African entrepreneurs in South Africa and then majority of the people mentioned your name really The guy with the shoes, right? Yeah. Oh my goodness For all yeah for sure and when I saw your name on the list, I'm like, okay, you know what I'm going to Kegali Probably this is the best way to meet this guy. Absolutely perfect timing. No, that's amazing man. I would see Congratulations I'm here for this one. Really? Yeah, I'm pitching next. I was not supposed to be here today But I'm like if you're pitching today that I'm gonna be on it Because I've been looking for you for a very long time. That's the same. I was looking for him. It's the same. I was looking for you So it's I ended up meeting Navar from Ender Ender shoes. So I went to a factory in In Mombasa And I went to a factory. I also went to a shop, but I never So, but for him I was all over the place No, I I have to because I'm a big fan of supporting African entrepreneurs. Um, my whole goal is to bring African entrepreneurs out showcase their business Can you believe that I didn't even know I was flying on the same day Tell your audience why you always for somebody who travels around the world We always miss this place How's it going? Good. I've been looking for you, you know It's not difficult to find me. I know where to find you So I'm actually at the event center where I am. It's called Norskine Africa's biggest hub for Entrepreneurs where entrepreneurs meet, share ideas also have their own businesses in here. I think it's a it's a unique Concert for entrepreneurs across the continent. Ibra, how are you doing? Good but at a moment There is going to be a session that I really want to attend because I've been looking for this guy for a very long time He is a South African shoemaker and yeah, when I was in South Africa, I was looking for him So knowing that he's part of the top 20 entrepreneurs. I just want to be In the session to listen to his pitch and maybe yeah We'll connect after that and uh, I'll try and probably do a story on him when I get the chance to go to South Africa again Pleasure to meet you too Hi, my name is Zueira from Nigeria from Nigeria. I heard you speaking to The shoe people. Okay. All right. Yeah, are you part of the 20th semi-finalist? I'm not I'm actually here for some other meetings and I saw this and I decided to show. Wow. I'm also an entrepreneur Okay, what do you do? I'm an African inspired baby care brand Nice Inspired by my premature triplets Who are seven years old Wow I mean, so you're based in Nigeria. Yes Maybe maybe when I get the chance to be in Nigeria, I'll get the chance to tell your story. Maybe That'll be amazing. Let me let me give my contact. Let's keep in touch when I get to Nigeria. I'll let you know, all right Thank you Hi everyone, my name is Theo Banuig. I am the first employee of BATU Across the two countries, the unemployment rate in Africa is 9.5 30 percent With the value contribution being South Africa at 29.81 percent dominated by youth unemployment in South Africa, which contributes 51.52 percent Interesting fact, South Africa actually ranks number two on youth unemployment Unlike myself, I'm a product of opportunity An accountant by profession had a privilege of pushing to work for one of the top four accounting things PWC for five years Two years in South Africa and three years in the Middle East Often times when I went back home holding an Alexander timesheet One of the most improvised timesheet in Alexander in South Africa I would realize that a lot of my youth and my peers are unemployed or our youth and my peers are employed Which is a true testament to the data that we see over here And I thought that became a crazy guy. I'm like, I need to go back home and be of service to my community And I started a business called BATU Our vision is to build a shoe brand that Africans can proudly affiliate with Right at the core of our mission, we want to read that hope and create sustainable jobs Then I went on to a journey. I did about 18 months of research and development Interesting findings from my research says that we've got about seven regions in the world Across the globe seven continents. If you look at all the regions, there's always a specific There's always a food brand presentation in whatever region. For example, take South South America Two main brands over there Ipanama and Havanins. We all know the states, right? Nike, Full Night, Anama, Kevin Plank and Chuck Taylor Condes And a lot of European food brands But when I came to my own beloved continent, I couldn't find a food brand Especially in sneakers that can be benchmarked with those sneaker brands And predominantly in sneakers Then I went on to the job to build a shoe brand that Africans can proudly affiliate with I became a crazy guy left my fancy job at PWC Got back home to be of service and to start a business that can somewhat Be a country between factor to grow in my economy Today that business employs over 1,300 people with all of our 32 brick and mortar stores Yes I was watching your presentation Yeah, how did I No, that was good, trust me. I mean, I realized that I was one judge that was trying to intimidate you and you're like, no I know what I'm saying. You know, that was amazing. Thank you. What do you do? Because I couldn't record that because I was watching from the other side I run a digital company called Movie Health Our platform connects users in Africa with doctors and medical services around the world Simultaneously from their phone Computers or walk in telere clinics. Hmm. Nice I wish you all the best and what is the platform so that the movie health international movie health It's a movie health international app store. You can find our app store. Is it an app mobile app? We have the web application and it's called apps.mobilehealthinternational.com You got you got everyone clapping in the room man. Thank you. You know, that was an amazing Thank you brother. I'll pitch right over there, right? Yeah Um, tell us more about bat issues man. What people need to know about bat issues? So we are a proudly South African sneaker brand and I think our mission is to build a shoe brand that Africans You know can partly affiliate with right at the core of our mission. We want to reignite hope and create sustainable jobs You know, we want to build a brand that you know, everyone in Africa You know across the globe can really look into a food brand that they can say this is from Africa You know, and they'd be proud of it and we're not kidding. They're genuine respective Faults of life. Yeah, one thing that really touched me the fact that they are also providing. I mean free shoes for Um, it's a high school. Yeah, it's cool shoes. That's amazing Tell us about that So, um, we I did it looked at the market and we know that the market is situated, you know with a lot of big brands Right, so we thought about where where we're about to be in the next 15 years in the next 10 years, right? And we thought about building our little own future consumer call it that Someone who's in primary school, you know, they don't even know their papers They don't even really know their dream and what they want to become but one thing for sure They've got talent and they want to be great someday, you know, and they're gonna be leaders of the society So we want to be a shoe of choice in walking that journey with them You're in grade one. We come we bring you cool shoes great five We give you cool shoes for free potentially maybe one day when you are going to high education We sponsor education so that one day when you're the president and you are an executive and you are a leader You would know what brand hook the chain with you and that is our aim First time a nice to meet you bro. Nice to meet you. You're okay From Kampala. Wow, Matoki Matoki family are you also from Kampala? Exactly I'm from Kigali. Yeah, Rwanda to the world man. I'm from Kampala, Uganda. My name is Frank. That's where I'm based So, um, I am 26 years old Yes, so, um, I started a company called women in business media Africa So this is a company that is online with a mission to tell the african female stories in business startups investments everywhere We go ahead, especially within the region in east Africa to get stories. What are you doing? You get on board you tell us what you do so that maybe we could have more women Get inspired by these stories that we do share and then we post them on our social media handles Right now we're based in Kampala, but we hope to extend our operations in Rwanda and we into the process What do you do? I'm doing software company. Okay. All right. What kind of software are you creating? We are creating mobile app System management. Okay. Where are you from? I'm from DRC, Congo. Wow Hi, my name is Miriam. I usually I don't look like this, but just like I'm looking like this because I'm sick. So I am from Morocco and I just met this handsome guy What a mile from Ghana And we're all here for one come and go. We are here because of ABH And um, yeah, I mean I got an english audience and she got there Yes, I'm Moroccan like an arab audience. Can you give us some a bit of arabic, you know? Oh my goodness, I got lost I got lost over there, but it's also meeting you. Um, what do you create on your channel? What do you do? Yeah, so I am basically talking about marketing and business on my Instagram channel So I'm just like talking about strategies of big brands and trying to simplify things for my audience because I have a Business and marketing background. So and this is my passion. So I just like create videos about that Yes, you all need to go check it out. It's also meeting you and um, yeah, I mean very soon you hear me speaking arabic just because of her All right, it's so funny. You guys are lucky to follow him because he's a handsome and so so so good guy. Thank you Hi, how are you? I'm good. How are you good? That was an amazing presentation out there? I mean You're amazing host. Oh, thank you. Where are you from from rwanda from rwanda. Yes Muraho Finally, we've got a presentation That's like Thank you. That's what welcome cheese Murakose Murakose china China Is thank you. It's amazing. So what do you do your host? So that's what I work with abh on their programs and partnerships Okay, that's amazing. Yeah Rwandese Nice, you don't look rwandese. You actually look like a nigerian. You know, I always get that people ask me to come from So are you fully rwandese and I'm like I am? My father's from nigeria. No My father's from nigeria You don't think the dad is from nigeria She's got a very west african nose though. That's what I'm saying. So I heard that given last night you were like, are you fully? Oh, okay. So you see So I'm right She's not ghani and This one It's from jerry salla Are you looking jerry sallow? Andrew, how's everything? Damn. You look good. I lost them all already Wow Is that you? Yes it is Today is um day two and the last day For the abh pitching and in the evening we're gonna have dinner and it's over then our head back To my country tomorrow But anyway, is your first time in rwanda? Yes, it's my first time here. First impression Very nice country, very nice people, very nice food also, but not as senegalese food That is the best time of my life here. Oh, okay Is it is it your second country in african? How many countries have you been so far? 10 countries 10 countries Your favorite country so far in africa. What your favorite country in africa so far my own country senegal after I can say This country rwanda. Wow, even if i'm not here for a long time. I will come back to visit Okay, and after I will say ibuari coast ibuari coast. Yeah, very nice very nice people Very nice food also And I want to go to a country, please come And I believe that when you come to ghani you start saying that ghani food is the best Yes, right But let me tell you this is no war with gelof rice. I don't think you have the best rice in the world I never say that I never talked about gelof rice, but she wants to bring the war, you know, but it's okay. It's okay. Yeah, imitate us Wow That's that that's hard-broken, man. You know like we meet it. Oh, yeah, it's on. It's on. It's recording But anyway, um We just head into the venue I think the last day and a lot to be happening today. I'll get the chance to meet some few ghaniers that are doing incredible stuff. So, yeah What's up? What's up? What a great day. Yeah, amazing day, man. What do you say about the second edition? I mean today's the second session, right second session. How was it? I mean these entrepreneurs are always inspiring, man If you hear them pitch you immediately want to start a business and impact people But you have a business yourself, right another one. What business do you do? I help young people gain experience and get employed with top companies here in Rwanda And I help employers find some the most talented people In the country, but you're young yourself. Yes, sir. So a young man helping young people Which one is your favorite session today? Zipei and Sherry From Morocco Zipei from Ghana. They were very sharp, very inspiring and also very experienced So I think that they are good. They can be in the top 10 Okay So I'm excited to see the people who qualify for the top 10 I can't wait to share with you and I know I was not part of the top 20, but I believe that I'll be in the top 10 That would be magic, right? So these are our incredible judges for the past two days Uh, your name and um, which country are you from? Let me swallow my food man Hi, my name is Hassan. I'm from Bahrain actually And how was the past two days? How was it amazing? It's always great to see all the entrepreneurs from all around the continent and The new ideas and the amazing founders and what they've been able to build. It's great At some point I felt like you guys were a little bit mean No, I feel like your questions were too much Yeah, yeah, are you trying to make them levels? No, I think so. I think it's a lot. That's how you show love to entrepreneurs because the market out there is so tough You can imagine um, if a question Saves you one year of work And a couple of millions of dollars of lost money I think no matter how tough that question is that's a lot of love and you just have to be courageous to ask this question Hopefully then they take it well and they reflect on those things So the true is not over we are on our way for a bootcamp Yeah, hi, how are you? You're most fun here. Ah, thank you. Yes. Appreciate you Yeah, did you subscribe when you have a 10,000 subscribe? And now we have 1.4 million. I love you brother Yeah, hi, how are you? Good to see you. Yes, this guy's waiting for me. I need to rush I feel like I need a whole day in Rwanda just saying Hello to people that Watch this one videos Because it's it's a little exciting, you know knowing that you're in a country that Isn't your country but everybody sees you and we're like, hi Thank you You're here So this is where we'll be having our bootcamp and what is the name of this place? What happens in here? It's a fun place and tourism place Like you come and see the horses, you have the zipline, you have a tree, you have paintball, padbikes and everything that is making fun Do you have banji jump in here? Yes, banji jump. I want to jump from the top to the down. Do you have it? I want to do that. I think I have my last few hours in Kigali And this time around I'm joined by we call them international friends Where are you from? Philippines Philippines. Yeah, Kamusta Okay, and where are you from? Hungary. Hungary. Do you speak English? Of course I speak English You know, you know, like English is the first language Oh, wow, you need to learn Hungarian. You're the first person to meet so I can't even greet you. So you need to teach me How to say hello So I will never forget you What do you want to learn? Hello, how to say hello? Hello. Yeah, is that a hello? Now you can say see ya See ya Okay Don't see you it's see ya. See ya. Okay. That's nice So, um, we're all in Kigali. Yeah, I mean, um, is this your first time in Kigali, though? Yeah, yeah first time How's the city first impression? It's uh, very clean That's what everybody says. That's my first impression. That's what everybody says. Very charming. Very, very cute. Very cute city. Oh Oh You asked my first impression What could I get in a day? Yeah Yeah, so it's it's our last day and this Ugandan guy. What up this moseveni's son Moseveni son Moseveni son is here adoring the beautiful Kigali. Hey wishing when will it come to Uganda too? I hope this video reaches you Moseveni Muraho Yeah See I still got a language Yeah, I was speaking How do you say how are you in Kenya run? Yeah, I'm a cool. I'm a cool. Yeah, then you say Maze. Yeah, you speak Chinese, right? Yeah. Oh, There's a man young Uh Hmm Okay, you're here to learn about history. What what kind of history are we here for today? Yeah, so I know maybe everything I just want to teach you today, please. I want to learn that's why I want to learn So we are here to a Beijing Memorial here in Kamp Kigali is a place dedicated to 10 Beijing commandos who are protecting the prime minister in 1994 genocide and they were here under UN Mission, so they got killed in this place exact place in 1994 genocide They protect the prime minister who was not to see because the genocide was normally focusing on killing to see But they got killed because that prime minister was not supporting the idea to kill people even though she was not a to see But she was not supporting the idea. Why are you kidding these people? These people I understand they have never done anything so they They took them they took the government. I was during the country that time in 1994 genocide They took them and then told them okay want to send you back home But instead of sending you them back home, they brought them in this place long ago in 1994 genocide This used to be a military base. So they brought them in this place and then put them inside this house You see a corner in front of inside this house. That's where they put them and then start At this bullet. No, these are the bullet. They didn't change anything. Everything you see here is very Yeah, you see the wall. Yeah, you see these are bullets. These are bullets. Yeah. Yeah, these are bullets These are bullets Wow, look at the oh my goodness So they went and put them in that corner. Oh my god So they were having some fuel like Small guy and that's the one they used to try to protect themselves by didn't work They didn't resist for so many hours. So they end up being killed But they were just in that corner So one of the reasons why I love being in Kigali is the fact that it's super organized I mean, listen, it's sunday today's car free day No car moves on sunday and listen, I'm walking in the main street just having a great time I see the whole country belongs to me. You know, it doesn't belong to me. But today no car moves to 2 p.m. Is it 2 p.m. Or 12 p.m. Or 10? Yeah, yeah It's around 10 a.m. So you see it's almost 10 and the only thing you can see is a motorbike It's always good to be back In this beautiful city And this city will forever Be in my heart content creators We always want to create content so I mean, I'm not doing anything or extraordinary because whatever you see I've done it before but I have a brother Rashid is creating a content. So I need to support So, yeah Let's just take the bike and head to the city center. Yeah, actually the city center I'm going to the city center. So, yeah Let's just go God The sun in Kigali hits so hard You know, I'm from Ghana and I'm still saying the sun hits so hard Which means that the sun today it's a stream I mean, this is my first time coming to Kigali being hit by a heavy sound like this one But yeah This is one of my favorite places in the country The conversion center And yeah, I remember the first time that I came here when I was doing a video about the Organized city. I sat somewhere right here. The video I did that have me being deported I sat somewhere right over there. So, I mean this place got a lot of memories for me and I did a lot of videos in here when ALU was here African Leadership University when it was here. I did some nice videos from this side, man Most of my videos were filmed in here. I was just sitting here making the videos I even did a video about Rwanda Right over there Like the whole I was I was just changing the What do you call the background? So I film I'll say I film over Five different episodes from here But just changing background You don't you look Ethiopian or Eritrean? Eritrean Let me take a picture with you. Of course. Why not? It's amazing. Yeah, I'm good to see you Yeah, the youtuber one, right? Yeah Thank you. Thank you so much. Nice to meet you. Yeah. Hi. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? Great. Nice to see you I want to take a photo Thank you. I show you every time. Oh, wow. I like it. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate you I'm really appreciative I thank you Thank you. Good job. Thank you so much. You live here. Yeah. All right No, I'm coming from Seattle, Washington Oh, okay. Okay to visit. Okay. Nice. Have a great business in Rwanda. Thank you. Thank you I feel like One day the entire Africa will embrace the content that I do because It's super crazy to see Africans from different part of Africa telling me that hey, I watch your videos Which which is incredible, man. You know, I thought they were Rwandese, but they are from Eritrea Oh, I was gonna say you will change the world by already changing the world in your own way Um, and you know, most importantly you are humble. You remember where you came from Have very strong roots when you have strong roots you can grow to be wide So, yeah, I'm cheering you on. I'm rooting for you and I'm very honored that you, you know, honored No, thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate you and I wish you all the best and I believe that um, you all can check out this podcast now Um, I just this is like my 72 hours in Kigali. Um, I think I'm even late to the airport But I just had to honor this invitation by doing this for her. So, yeah Um, if you can tell us your name and what you do Hi guys, my name is Anizzi and I'm the host of the Fardom with Anizzi podcast We are on Apple, Buzzsprout, Spotify, so find us there. We are also on instagram at Fardom with Anizzi So, please go check it out. Check us out Hi So it's about it's about time for me to head to the airport. I see Nick waiting for me Checking that the time is up. So, yeah, I'll see you guys when I get to the airport Producer you're not showing your face, but anyway, anyway, let's go to the airport Everything that has a beginning has an end And the time has come for me to head to Kenya to go see my wife And um, yeah, I came here without a bag But at least I'm going home with another bag Thanks to the ABHC So, yeah come along with me. Let's head to the airport I just, my plane is around five o'clock, so I still have a bit of time So, yeah No, no, no, no, no, no. I need to go No No, I need to go home You want me to miss my flight? Yes No, definitely. All the best, yeah. Bye. Bye. It's crazy. So, they want me to come out. I've never seen Maria Oh Hi Very Hello Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Are you going? I will see you in Egypt today. You come to Morocco. You give me a call. I'll see you in Morocco. Yeah Hi I'll see you In Egypt? Of course. In Nairobi. In Nairobi. Now I'm going to Nairobi. So you can't see me in Nairobi I'm not going to Nairobi now. I'm sure you'll be here in Nairobi. You know we are getting in-laws. Yeah Maybe slow motion See you in Nairobi From Uganda, yeah. See you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Oh my god All right, please do Please do. Okay, man Bye-bye Time to say goodbye. I'll see you all when I get to the airport. After seven to two hours I have my bag I came here with my bag And I spend a whole time in Kigali without my bag So I'm taking the back home To my next destination It's the first time something like that's ever happened to me, man Right away I'm so exhausted, man. I just can't wait to get to Kenya and sleep for a very long hours Time to say goodbye