 Afrika m� piş Stones has not been for usjähr empowermentawan predictive LOL yeah racism it and measured 1風 healthy africa I must conclude that in fact I brought one of the best projects ever on YouTube Afrika use poet will tell five o vegetable by an african africans are genius once again just look behind me this was done by an african and he built this with just west wood i mean he's so lucky that he's not from my village like we use those woods for chaku but he is using it to i mean add in value to west wood that's incredible hey if you want to get blown away every single day all you need to do is to subscribe and be part of this awesome family and i've heard that most of you don't like the video change your ways before you watch any video of watamaya do me a favor and like the video share to your friends and family let's grow together come with me and let's go meet this brother who is adding value to waste wood my brother good to see you nice to see you too all right um can i sit down because you look like a king you know thank you my brother has anyone ever told you that you're genius yeah a few people but i don't think i believe it i just think that my average african man you know walking through the continent and doing what i can do you know what you are amazing and i'm impressed of what you've been able to do i mean adding value to the continent but i just want to know who you are i mean where you from and tell me your story that's why i'm here yeah well my name is yabuateng that's my real name but i go by the name zozo which is zoh zoh zebra on highway on highway yes um yeah i'm a zebra i'm black and white you know because i like to tell us it is okay you know it is it is down for you i'm against you i don't like to stand in between and get confused and don't know what i'm doing no i'm very straight so that's why i'm zebra i'm just black and white yeah you're born and raised in gana born and raised in gana and then i disappeared somewhere along the line you disappeared yes i disappeared um i went to the other part of the world the end which is down under a country called new zealand okay yes and i live there for about maybe 14 to 15 years what you go to new zealand initially went there to school okay yeah and then somewhere along the line i stayed and i became a wandering adventurer okay trying to you know seek knowledge and understand the world better so i end up staying there and i enjoyed it i did a lot of stuff over there so i was heavily involved with music so quite very heavy in the creative and performing us and i had a band called zozo and the band was an afrobeat band which was inspired by felacuti so um after a while i decided that i need to get back to the motherland as well but you told me that you're enjoying your life in new zealand yeah why would you leave such an enjoyment yeah kitty said i'll go kill you with enjoyment and leaving that all life over there and return to the motherland i mean what brought you here yeah i it wasn't like i wasn't enjoying the motherland before i went to new zealand i think going to new zealand was another way of getting more knowledge i'm a seeker of knowledge asante people call this type of head in person person and in person person will be person same one i say listen it's a seeker of knowledge a person same so i like to seek knowledge and i was always wondering to add something to myself so even though i was enjoying there it came to a point that i felt that i needed to get back to africa because i had so much that i have gained that i can come here to influence africa to take africa to the next level which year was this this was um 2016 and then return to the motherland yeah return to the motherland and i went back 2017 for about only two months and i came back again because you know moving to africa is not an easy piece so if you take yourself out of africa for 14 years and then all of a sudden you want to come back sometimes it's a fantasy but when the reality kicks in you realize that no bro it's not an easy journey so i mean rhythmically i changed my template and to come back to this template i needed to revisit how i'm gonna keep it up so keeping it up over here was a bit hard so i had to go back riff well a little bit and then come back i am in it and i'm doing it slowly even every day is a challenge but then life without challenge two becomes very boring so for me it was a calling for me to come back here and i came back trying to pursue the music over here but i realized that it was a different rhythm that i was needed for a different theme you couldn't fit into the music space i think that my sort of style of music and what is happening on the continent now that's not really flow together the people are not ready for me yet because i'm coming more from a sort of a music with life music background and big festival type of music where the people here are still you know doing computer synthesized style of music so and my music style had a lot of african indigineal style to rate i mean i play almost every drum from different tribes in gana there is no piece that i can listen to that i cannot replicate it and that is the other creative side of me yeah and i'm even as i am doing wood every day i'm still researching into music and i i'm keeping that for the next generation anytime they need some wisdom they can come back to me and i can tell them a story i mean what you're doing in gana right now is that you are converting waste wood into what houses houses i mean household furniture household furnitures you know anything that you know if you are interior decoration you have a hotel you want somebody to come and you know change the beauty of it you know give it a unique look you know i use the waste wood for that what is an inspiration behind it well you know it's a simple story okay can you tell me and the simple story is about my sister wow so i love wood and i've always played with wood but didn't realize that i was a wood man when i went to new zealand i took a drum with me okay and the drum was made with wood i remember that when i was young anytime i would run to go and listen to bubble music i'll be playing my wooden bed so wood has always been part of me but i did not realize it until when i told my sister that i want her to cook because she's been to a chef's school and i said cook and let's see if people will buy it in the neighbor who don't go work for any big you know restaurant or anything just cooking the house and then she started bang first week food was gone bang second week food was gone and i was like whoa and i see a lot of palette around i see a lot of waste wood around which was never converted into anything so i told myself i'm gonna use this piece to create something very simple for her in the neighborhood so that it adds value to the cooking it makes it cleaner make it nicer so we develop our first piece and when we develop the first piece that became the magic tell me one thing that you did that blew people's mind right there wow right there this is the original piece this is the piece that is taking the story around the world what makes it so unique well the thing is you know what it's it's mobile it's a bar it's a little bar but it's not little it's bigger at the same time because you know what look at this so it is like a cocktail bar and it has an ice chest inside okay you know what i mean so you have all your drinks and stuff over here you have a storage space over here you can display other things over here you can always put it back again and then it has an opening of a boot of storage as well i mean really if you go to any bar cocktail bar anywhere you know beach or whatever you can use this to serve about 300 people just like that just like that you have to release the breaks release the breaks and then you know you can wheel it around you can wheel it around you can make a whole 360 10 this is it this is what the hotels need you know what i mean you have a buffet at the hotel in a conference place or whatever it is you want to be able to move the stuff around and serve people just like you have been in the plane you know how you know you go the alleyway and they put some stuff through yeah you try this is a kitchen or something this is the second piece of the story so after this one i decided that i need to revolutionize the hospitality industry to make people have an easy access of being able to sell food food that can come to you you don't always have to go to them so this is the second piece this is mobile kitchen this is mobile kitchen you look at the frame this look at all the metal work everything was done in Ghana here it wasn't made no way everything was designed by myself put together with my other teammate and this is what we achieve you look inside and you're going to see there is a whole bar inside there okay we have like a small tap that you can use to you know pour your wine through there is a water tank in there the top has a solar you know so upgrade like let's say you know in the middle of nowhere in your village and you take this stuff over there in the night you can still set up light will be on music will be playing now now will you accept the fact that you're a genius yeah so we're serving out of it you know but when the covid came through everything slowed down so we decided to pack some of our stuff inside here but this is it you know this is how it works so i mean you stand here there's so many compartments to display that if i want to open it to you it will take the whole day but you can imagine having a house and a kitchen this is what it represents all from pallet all from waste wood wood that is meant for other people using it for firewood and all that no zozo and we are right in the pallet kitchen okay we are at the pallet kitchen and the pallet kitchen is in usu and this is where you can find me as my chill out time good good good food but maybe next time we can talk about that my brother i mean the way you're talking i just want to know are you doing this alone yeah i'm doing this alone doing this alone trying to um impart the entire africa i'm not imparting only gana you know i was in uganda in february and it was also based on waste wood i've been in bokina based on you know waste wood so um but i would need people to come and support and i want to train as many people that i can i want to you know give my brain to them and um the people that are working for you train them or they're just ganen carpenter's that you decided well uh yeah they have very minimal knowledge about cabin tree so what i'm doing is i am the one really doing the training now yes yeah this guy here it's not a carpenter he's actually a electrician but he got an interest in it and then i said you come and then i'll you know i'll take you to a different level and how many people have you employed so far in here i mean casually i have a lot of people but permanently i have only these two people with me so when i say casually is because i build outside so anytime i'm going i call them and then we have a location we meet over there we do our job and then they go but if it's consistent then they become permanent if it's not consistent you know on and off before the covid we were four but when the covid came in then everything went down so some people had to go i mean you move from new Zealand to ghanas definitely you have a message for your fellow brothers and sisters that were born here left the continent now living in in the west and if you have a message to tell them to come back what will that message be well i'd like everybody to come back i'd like everybody to come back because you know what africans in africa cannot build africa alone widows in the diaspora need to come back here so that we can blend you see when you have the transatlantic experience it becomes another added advantage you come here and let's put our brain together and rebuild africa but coming down here you have to be a bit prepared there are tough times there are challenges but it's all part of life because this is what we need to go through to make africa a better place to live when you go to the west life is not easy there either but the people over there have built their own country that we go and enjoy i mean what are the kind of the challenges that you faced when you were in the west oh brother i mean whether alone the weather alone for me sometimes to wake up to go to work is hard because it's so cold you know it's so cold so what do you do but you have to go you pay rent every week if you don't have money the week comes you don't have money what are you gonna do you got me so um you know it's a different template it's a different rhythm but the people there were born there they are used to that rhythm we were born here we used to a different rhythm so even though we've gone there to learn everything let's come back to an influence here you see if you watch the british okay they've been everywhere to colonize but what happened they make britain great because they took different different things from different countries and they took it to their country and they make it great so we africans we've been everywhere now let's come back and make africa great wow and um if you have a message for africans on the continent what will it be africans on the continent to tell you the truth they need to be serious how serious they need to be serious in terms of their mindset of work we can't build africa with any like a desical attitude no we have to be serious about our work we have to revisit the old africa we keep blaming our ancestors but when you look around it looks like our ancestors did better so what are we doing we need to do better than them so africans need to be serious the politics of africa that is the main thing that need to stop that every african must have a conscience for the next 200 years to tell themselves that my children would have to grow up over here and have everything just like the way america have it it seems like you're talking from the heart which means that when he came to africa it was not that easy for me bro it's not easy every day i mean what but i will not give up i know you will give up i was the major challenge that he faced when he came here yeah everything is too much unstructured everything is too much everywhere and makes life so hard from point a to point b it's never straight too many dishonest people and makes it very hard that is the challenge that i face that you can't really get things done the way it's supposed to be done and what do you think is the way forward the way forward you want to really know that of course we need solutions not the problem always african must forget about democracy wow yes african must forget about democracy and go switch african must go back to monarchy the ruling systems in the world that have worked perfectly has been monarchy africa is not at the age of democracy democracy is being sold to us we bought into it but really it's not working for us we need a father who can look after us for a long time that understand a certain set of discipline that we can follow that's where africa need africa does not need this up and down demo crazy no we don't need it do you think africa is the future africa is the future africa is the future and africa will always be the future because you see the land of africa is a land that has been in existence since creation for a long time i mean first homo sapiens were africans so this is the cradle of humanity this is where everybody's gonna come back to so this is the heaven on earth but africans themselves don't know it that's why we run around everywhere looking for the heaven and looking for the heaven in the bible no it's not there it's right here me and you are in heaven even when you you throw maize on the concrete it germinates right even the bird when the shit you know it germinates why because the land is so fertile 365 days rainfall and sunshine in africa our people go hungry it means something is wrong we can plant food everywhere we don't need to go nowhere but it's a step that we needed we needed this experience to go out there to come back so if you are still there you need to be here because this is where we are meant to be other america called yeah it's buried over here exactly you know me it's where we need to be wow you know what what you're saying which means africa is not just the future africa is the past present yes and the future yes thank you so much for sharing with me and if you really want to reach out to you i'm gonna put his email numbers on the screen so that you reach out to him and come support his business you know as we always do it it's always by force to support a brother's business it's your boy mr gata baby don't forget to like the video share and subscribe thank you so much for talking to me