 welcome to S jugairangi day thank you it's nice to have you around i think S jugairangi has become one of my favorite countries in african nice nice i'm really having a good time because when i was coming everyone was telling me not to come they are coming and i'm meeting nice people beautiful people i'm telling me welcome to our beautiful country a country of slim, dark and tall i'm not slim and he just confirmed that Dinkers are really tall I can't wait to do a video on the tallest women's on earth being the Dinka people that's impressive but I mean the food is almost done do you guys have Uber boats in here because I unfortunately we don't but we do have our local taxi service that you can order online wow it's called Shiluana Shiluana it's owned by it's owned by a South Sudanese it was built in South Sudan that's amazing yeah I mean it's relatively very cheap quite efficient actually this guy is really feeling the gap amazing but do you know the person because I always tell positive stories about Africa I actually do know the person you know him? oh really? he's always in his office always in his office amazing I mean I don't know if he is willing to speak to me because I would love to tell his story I mean definitely I'm sure he will alright since you're taking me there is it possible for us to use this own cap to go there? yeah for sure I mean can you tell me the name of the app so that I can download it it's called Shiluana Shiluana ana sounds like a name of ana ana in Arabic means me me so basically the translation is take me Shiluana can I just say this take me to meet the CEO behind this amazing app yeah definitely I'm sure he will thank you and it's a pleasure meeting you you are one of the people that are changing the narrative of South Sudan I heard that Uber doesn't exist yet and you are the man behind Shiluana how true is that? first of all welcome to South Sudan thank you I'm happy you are with us here my name is Dhudmoyak Uber is there is it but we have Shiluana Shiluana I mean I want to know what really inspired Shiluana ok Shiluana it was just the idea we are going because we don't have like Uber we don't have any taxi application so I came up with the idea Shiluana actually it was a reaction from the people who I was with them in one of the IT conference in India then they will start asking me what the service you have like they will ask you the service you have in your country yes what taxi application do you have unfortunately at that time I don't have a five in South Sudan and I don't have even a single taxi application in the South Sudan so I say let me come back and do it wow but are you an IT person or you just decided to pay someone to do it for you ok I have super genius experience I have been working in Saudi Arabia Sudan, Emirates, Syria before the Christ and finally I came back to South Sudan were you born here I was born in Khartoum so you speak Arabic I speak Arabic very well very well so like you were born in Khartoum and what happened did you leave Khartoum to anywhere I studied primary school in Khartoum high school in Khartoum then I went to Egypt I came back to Khartoum I worked for two years and I got an opportunity outside which country did you go to first of all I went to Emirates I worked there then people who actually own the company they have another brand in Saudi Arabia so again they shifted me to Saudi Arabia for sometime then again to Syria and again I came back I want to know here what brought you back to South Sudan because you are not born here but you know you are from here what brought you back after independence from Sudan the country was just new fresh and there is a lot of opportunities in South Sudan for me as a professional in IT I know there is a lot of opportunities related to my faith let me come start my own business yes I will struggle but I am sure I will make some difference so your main goal is to make a difference in South Sudan I mean how long have you been back since how long I back in 2012 after independence so you are just waiting for the country to drive before you come back was Shilu your first ever no actually when I came back I joined the central bank central bank of South Sudan central bank of South Sudan now you are working on no I resigned when you came back to South Sudan you are working for no when I came back to South Sudan I was I created a company for IT then there is the central bank for me a job then I went there I worked for them for some time but I find myself outside there I can do more than inside so I resigned and I created my own business wow and since you created your own business do you think it's worth it yes now in term of money not yet but I believe what had the percent after 2 years it would be different plus it's worth it because I created like 60 something jobs for young for this for me something is very good wow like you mean that you created over 60 jobs for young people so now we have 64 jobs drivers, operators networking, database marketing that's impressive so the CEO of Shilu Ana told me that he's actually happy because he has been able to employ 64 people after quitting his job to create his own taxi booking app and I just want to know if he's happy at the drivers also happy working for him are you happy working for Shilu Ana of course I got two drivers in the car one at the park and another one in here are you happy working for him very very happy really and like people of Juba like the service yes they like it very much for price for taxi wow that's impressive so like you go everywhere in Juba right everywhere in Juba so let's say I come from Ghana I arrive at the airport of Juba and I want a request for Shilu Ana will I be able to get one instantly amazing man tell us something about Shilu Ana I mean how it all started did you have your own cars that time okay when I start I think to start Shilu Ana actually 90% from the people they do not support me they say no this idea will not work why because of the internet we have a very bad internet at that time now simple at that time we have a very bad internet plus the idea is new for the people plus those who have cars in the market they charge very high and for our Chinese so it will not make sense for them to join us because they will lose but I say okay it's fine at that time it's our own cars then time after time they will see this one is better then they will join we started with two cars my car and my wife car amazing your wife actually supported you actually my partner your wife is a partner how many cars do you have now now 17 cars that's impressive and where do we see Shilu Ana in the next 5 years in the next 5 years I see myself not even 5 years I wish according to our plan 3 years we will not work only in Juba without other cities like wow Malacan and so on so which means in 5 years time we see Shilu Ana in Ghana I hope so I hope so I know in 5 years we see Shilu Ana in Ghana so please let's put it on the map in Nigeria all over Africa all of us will be using Shilu Ana I hope so that would be very very interesting let me know what are some of the difficulties you face when establishing this whole business in South Sudan first of all the taxes the taxes actually is the one make everything difficult plus for us as a taxi company the fuel every day is increasing and for me I cannot increase our rate every day also it's not good so sometimes we keep our rate as it is but the market is increasing not the big problem we price the inflation of course because for us in South Sudan 90% of our thing we imported from outside so we need dollar and we are operating using pound so when I go to the plant market to buy dollar the price has gone up tell me do you think that it's time for all the South Sudanese who got displays because of the war went to different African countries some of them even went as far as Europe America do you think it's time for them to come back and help to fill up this beautiful country actually there is people out there they are still waiting for the right time which one is the right time for them they say this now is not the right time for this kind of business when I start people tell me this is not the right time for your business but I'm sure everyone who thinks we want to do something in this country let them come the time is right just if you have to do the right thing but if you are waiting for the right time then you will never make anything do you think there are more opportunities in this country there are still a lot of opportunities in my field a lot of opportunities is still fresh country just come grab your opportunity if it happens if you have a chance to change something in Africa or that thing if I have a chance to change the way our politicians think it's the more important if they change it Africa will go very fast I just want to say thank you so much but let us know where can we find Shilohana Shilohana now in the whole Duba city if you have the apps only just request the nearest car will just arriving like 5 to 10 minutes thank you so much for talking to me and hope to see all of Africa and even the entire world thank you so much for having me and I appreciate your time