 Welcome back to the YouTube channel, it's your favourite village boy Mr Ganon Baby and I'm still here in Nairobi, Kenya. I'm super excited because I'm bringing you another innovative and mind-blowing episode. I get super excited when I see Africans doing something to change the narratives of Africa because this is the journey that I am on. You see what I'm holding today? I hardly use these things but since this is made in Kenya, I mean proud Africans. Oh, I put it in my eyes. Cheese. I'm a proud Africans. I only support things that are made in Africa by Africans and you know what? This is made by a young Kenyan. Can you believe it? Oh my goodness, you know what? Come with me. The way I'm so excited I need to introduce you to this amazing gentleman but hey, do me a favour when I bring episodes like this. All you need to do is to stop whatever you're doing, click on the like button, share the video and if today is your first time seeing this annoying, energetic boy on your screen, my name is Watamaya and subscribe and be part of this awesome family. Come with me, let's go meet this amazing gentleman. You know what I'm super excited like, made in Africa. Oh, it's supposed to be spread on the body, not the hair. Oh my God, I spray my eyes man. Tony. Tony Airo. Welcome. Man. How are you? I'm great. I've been waiting for you. Oh really? Yes. I'm so excited to see you today. I'm more excited to meet you. How? Let me tell you, you're the big guy. Oh no, no, no, no. I'm not looking for you. No, you're not looking for me but if you're able to do this, I think you'll be on top of my channel. I'm telling you, on your channel, I feel honored to be interviewed there. Have you seen the guys you interviewed? Tony. I'm a small guy there but I'll be bigger after this. Definitely, Tony. I mean, I want to sit somewhere or you want to take me around. Yes, I want to take you around. You want to take me around? Yes, I have to. I have to so that you can believe it. Where are we now? We are in the Solaria Nairobi factory where everything is done here. Tony, we are in the factory but you own this factory? Yes. You own it? Yes. But Tony, everyone is telling me that you are a hair guru. You make women hair and I will never bring my girlfriend to you. I'm sorry, I'll never do that. You should. You should. When people tell you he's a guru, you should. Tony, you need to tell me who you are before you take me around of what you've done. Okay. Do you want to sit somewhere or you want to sit here? Let's start from here before I take you in. Okay, feel free. My name is Tony Airob. I'm an African. I'm a manufacturer in Kenya and I want to supply the entire Africa with our products. Mai is one of my friends. I see him on Facebook and YouTube and this is an opportunity for me to talk about what I do because I've been admiring. I mean, if he's interviewing the presidents, who am I? Tony, welcome. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Come. All right. Okay. Thank you. So, Mai, this is our work area. I have our people working here so that they are the people who are making the warashi big, not me. These are the people who make warashi big. They make everything here. I'm just the brain. But without them, I'm not here. All right. So these are my special people. I mean, this is my family. This is your family? This is my family. Tony, you need to tell me who you are, I mean where you started from. You were born in Narobi? No, no, no. I was not born in Narobi. I wish I was born and raised in Narobi. I think I'll be better. What were you born? No, I was born in Nakuru, a place called Shariako. Then we lived and I was brought up in a place called Shabab as a very humble kid. I was raised by my mother and he has made me what I am today. You were raised by your mother? Yes. And then what brought you to Narobi? I came to Narobi when I was coming to college. That's the first time I landed in Narobi. I used to be told about Narobi. You see, when you are up in Nakuru there, you are told about Narobi. I have an uncle in Narobi. You know, you wish to also have an uncle in Narobi. But we didn't have an uncle in Narobi. But when I came to college, my mom got the college for me. I used to say I want to do hairdressing, but I never knew what to do. How do I apply? When you are in high school, you just say you want to do this. So my mom got the college for me. Actually I was selling second hand clothes before I came in here to college. I came in and I started this. She told me to go to Narobi. I was like, mom, how do I go to Narobi? You will land in Narobi, you will find a place. This is the school, this is the school and you have to come back. So you came to Narobi to learn how to do hair. I came to Narobi for a hair college. That is what brought me here. Narobi, yes. And from hair? So I started hair and the hair name was big. The hair name was big and I said, let me try my products. Can I try? And I started. You are using people's products? I was buying another brand. I was using people's products. And then I realized I can also do my own product because people started believing that if I tell them this product is good, then they can use it and it will work. So I said, let me take the advantage. So everything that you are using to make hair right now is all your own product? They are all our own products. So this is fantastic. Can you tell me some of the products that you make? We have a lot of products, but I will just mention the main product. We have basically everything for hair. We have shampoo, we have conditioner, we have treatment, we have oils. We have shower cups, we have sleeping cups. We have perfumes made in Kenya. We have body splash made in Kenya. We have edge control made in Kenya. Those are some of the things we are doing. You are more like now a cosmetic manufacturer. Exactly. In fact, I think I need to change that name after your interview that I am a cosmetic manufacturer. Just not a manufacturer. Incredible. Thank you. Tony, you have a passion for making hair. But right now you are doing something else, making your own product. I just want to know what is the inspiration behind it? What really motivated you to do something like this? All right. First if I take it a little bit far is when I visited the United States of America the first time as an African you know when you go to the States you want to do something and then come back. Your visa is probably six months and say can I do something and then go back. So I started going to salons in New York and I was looking for work. Of course they will ask you do you have a line sense? You say I just want something to do under the table. And you know you show them pictures of what you have done and you know the newspaper I used to write for the newspaper for a long time and they would ask you do you have your own product. So that one kept inspiring me because every salon I would go they would ask me about do you have your own brand. So I thought wow so whatever I am doing back home I need to be having my own but where do I start? But you see when you start like that is when you come back home and you start doing things you go get if I want something I go for it until I feel like this is not working then I say I tried until the end I just don't dream and then sit and say it will come it never comes to you you have to work hard and do it so I started looking for people who can do manufacturing for me because I don't have a place to manufacture so contract manufacturing it was also very hard so what did I do? I used to buy a brand and put it in a container and decant it and tell people it's my owner and guys would like there people would say wow that is good there people would say I don't like I lost clients in the salon because when I started my own brand people kept saying oh do you still go there I eat a lot it's a mentality but the same brand that I used to use on your hair is the one I'm using now but in a different container so you'd feel like you're eating that mentality that something is not good if it's done home and I kept saying whatever is so difficult in doing this thing that's why I really want to do it because why are people saying it can't and it can't if there is hope you can always do something you have life you have hope so I started doing that and the people who encouraged me the people who kept saying if you're doing hair and you have your own product you must be doing a good job because there is no manufacture in Africa if I can say who is a hairdresser and a manufacturer so you're the first one I'm the first one that means even when I was starting the product I wanted to hide my name because I didn't know the results so I said if it doesn't work people will not know it's me but I met people who told me if you don't trust what you make who's gonna trust it and that's why all those products have my name but Tony this does not have your name this has my kids name if my kids are there isn't it the warashi is those are my girls and that's why I put this name warashi in Swahili a perfume is Marashi Marashi only M now the W goes an M and a lot of people think it was Marashi and then I changed it to warashi but today you know warashi are my kids so you can call me Baba warashi exactly instead of each name can you show us the process yes I can show you the process we have the machine that we use here it's for a starter it's not very big but it's still working and I know Maya if you come here after 6 months probably because of this interview I'll be having the one turn thing so we process it here everything we put it here it cools here we give it 21 days to cure very well the perfume that we make from Africa is made for Africans Africans wants a perfume that lasts not the the 6 hours one hour thing this will last after the process of here we mix everything here under tight wherever there is no moisture to go in very tight stays here for 21 days after this we take it here we put it here because we used to use the manual things like pressing it like tomato sauce there but now we have advanced got as blasters with this machine we put it there and then the guy put it here what this helps is it is faster and there is no spillage in perfume when you spill even 10 grams it's a loss how many litres do you make like we make 300 now we are to 300 litres which we sell probably now we have started selling maybe in 2 months it's done and then we do another one and I'm sure we're gonna get to attain I have a platform where we support made in Africa business so I think this place is too small for you after this video it's by force I'm not gonna say please support Warachi it's by force I'm gonna put your numbers on everything we're gonna do wholesale let me know because I need to get my car you will get your car now from the Warashi we have others the Warashi is more of men and then we have also Warashi kiss this is Warashi kiss this is Warashi gold so these are the two and then we have the ones that we started with we have Warashi spark and we have Warashi attraction spark is more of men attraction is more of women and these are the boxes if you go to our website you'll get them this is Warashi spark and this is Warashi gold these are what started those people who started supporting our perfume started with this one and then after that we had to diversify and cater for everyone because you see this is like ten dollars, twenty five dollars and you have to cater for everyone we came with body splashes for the same sense we have attraction, we have gold these bodies are normally slightly cheaper you want to smell good and you don't want to spend so much yes body splashes don't last long but for Africa this takes like four hours you're good to go for this one it's also very good and you can put it in the bag you can travel with it, you can spray it wherever you want to spray it you have a meeting, you can always spray it so I took care of everyone after doing the Warashi now the perfume we had to take something else the Warashi lotion we did everything here look at the package look at the consistency not only the consistency and the moisture I'm a village boy I didn't really use it this morning I just went from the bathroom in your office I don't even know how to open it I'm really a village boy yes did you get a cocoa from Ghana oh my god I'm telling you please I need ten of this you will have because I think we need to give your facebook your youtubers the most youtubers we will give them yes everybody will give it you need to support Warachi Warachi Gold, Warachi Diamond we will support everything I like the way you have smelled it Tony I want to know do you have any aim or go to expand this whole factory because you know the whole Africa will be coming in here I'm telling you I have a plan and I want to show you I know you're busy but can I take you just only for five minutes or less you will go and see what I'm doing and I want to expand but the next time you're coming I have a pressure of showing you this is what I've done can I take you? of course Maya and this is the new place 20 minutes ago and we are still working on it it used to be a garage as you can see it was a garage and we are trying to clear everything that was here because the owner is supposed to come out and I'm supposed to go in and I like the fact that you have agreed to come to this place that is not finished so this is the new manufacturing this is going to be the new manufacturing Tony Tony Tony I don't understand what's going on you started from being a hairstylist you gave back to that one the factory this is big and this one we are going to take even even higher can I ask you this question is somebody funding you not yet if somebody funds me Maya will be very far that's why I need that funding I'm talking about no funding so far so where did you get the money from? from the factory you see it's the salon the factory and now the factory you started a salon without having the factory so you mean the money from the salon give back to the first factory this is the second factory that I'm working on now Tony I think I believe in you for what you've done I think more people need to support you Tony do you need sponsors or do you need investors I need investors and I need African investors please Africans I've seen what he has done I was in the salon I've been to the first factory and this one is huge please if you really want to invest I'll put his email there contact him directly you're going to talk to him directly and you can invest in his business take me through this one I'm impressed so so far we just brought in very small things here and there this is how the factory is going to be a setup just a little bit of savings and here and there I have a big plan and I'm hoping to get a fund so that I can also go bigger and bigger so I want to take you just slightly you see this is like an office block this is going to be an office block you have to work on it this is where the I believe in myself this is where the lorries will be coming and you know taking the products from here and it's a big place a 40 feet can fit here that place the other place you saw so this is going to be better for me better for the manufacturing better for my workers you know the people I've worked with so I'm hoping that in the next 6 months you're coming back to Kenya if you come back here I promise you I will do something Tony yes do you believe that Africa is the future I believe Africa is is not the future Africa is future now Africa is now not the future is now future is when it is now our fathers used to say the same thing Africa is future Africa is future no Africa is now Tony you started almost everything here and I will say that you're almost there but most of us want to leave the continent and go abroad and do you think we need to leave we don't need to leave and I will not say don't go to other continent go to study you can study there's no problem as you study in China but you're here so it does not mean when you study in China it's a bad thing or study in the states it's a bad thing or the UK it is good even here we have people who are from Ghana who are studying here there are people who are from the states they are studying here so but when they finish whatever they are studying they go back to their country so I tell people it is okay to study but bring the knowledge back to Africa not the future it is now so if you had a chance to change something in Africa what will it be I'll change the mindset of Africans we can do our own here you see I'm even feeling this thing that we are doing the interview in an English we should be doing it in one language in Swahili we are doing it in English there's a time I promised my mom this is funny out of topic I told my mom one day I'll have you in a mother tongue and they'll translate down there and it will come watch me I'll talk in mother tongue and they'll translate in that language your message for young African entrepreneurs I can tell you one thing for fact hard work, dedication focus most of the young people most of the entrepreneurs who wants to be entrepreneurs they want to make it big like this it can never it is sweeter when you start from there and you see your sweats but you want to make today you want to be big today and sometimes I think a lot of people social media will lie to you you will see our local celebrity musicians and they are driving big cars sometimes it's not their cars you just hire for that particular day and when you see you also want to buy the same thing so I think consistency patient and focus is the main thing you say you have to be consistent in what you do and you have to trust and you have to have faith in what you do like when you met me I was smelling how yo I was like what perfume are you wearing exactly if I'm making perfume and I'm wearing other people's perfume then I don't believe in my own exactly yes if you come to my house I'm telling you everything we make we use if it's shower gel we use our own lotion baby care everything I even feel bad I'm using somebody as long because I need to use exactly you see that's why it's very important to be in the salon still because I see where the gaps are people complaining oh this shower gel I just use it for 2 weeks it's done where is it from that country now I made something for us and I saw you making something I saw you making something like a Vaseline yes like it's not even a Vaseline it's called petroleum jelly made in Kenya very good I'm telling you and the prize you know when you get things made in Africa the prizes are not exaggerated the economy we are in right now you want something and can still work on you it's a good quality that is what you need yeah you see come Maya come okay we are still working on this factory these are the cages you know so we are still using it as a store we have in manufacture you can see here we are still working on it the people who are supposed to be here today they are off duty they will come these are cages just to try and make space for it I want to take you upstairs where now I'm doing you see you saw the other place is really small so we are coming here and yes so it's under construction as you can see we will be having our productions here up here the production will be done the raw material will be here production is done here you know we will put the things that are supposed to mix all these things and then there is no more you know pouring with a jug now we have you can come I see we have all these things here that are going to take the products down there so all these are done here and you know with our local technicians so it's going to go down there and then I will take you down there you see where we will be doing the package now production will be up packages will be down there will be storage you know the investors if they come here they will see you know I am using their manual and I promise you if you invest in me you will be happy you invest in him you will definitely be happy happy in this just not happy in this it will come back I promise you so the production from up there it will be coming here there will be a set up down here of tables so people will be packing here then we will be having a lab on the other side and now it will be much better because the other times I normally take my product to other people's lab now I will have my own lab to test my product before they go out to the government lab because I am certified with every product that you have seen there even the perfume they are certified with the government lab I just want to say you are doing an incredible job keep up the good work all Africans will come here to support you no matter which country they are from I just want to say thank you so much for taking me around I appreciate your time and hey if you are watching this video my name is Mr. Gaena Baby don't forget to like the video and share let more people get to know Tony Iroh's story because I feel like this story can inspire many out there thank you so much and can I tell you something before you sign off Maya thank you very much for hosting me I feel very honored to be hosted by you and I am promising you I will not let you down thank you so much