 It is so beautiful in here I came to do point and kill, how many of you visited this place because of what am I leave a comment and let me know this was the second episode that I filmed during my African entrepreneurship episode I never got so much into details, but the story of what you see in here is really beautiful. The first time I came in here.  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to come here to establish a hotel okay so with the paperwork and everything it was taking too much of my time how long did it take you about seven years seven years yes for the paperwork alone just to build in here yes wow so i decided okay not to waste too much time and you know raw materials and stuff let me just go ahead and just build a restaurant to start work and something didn't tell me have a restaurant in atlanta no so you wanted to build another restaurant in gala yes so i built the restaurant about a month and a half for me to open it somebody put fire in it and everything went to ashes are you kidding me yes sir three years of building a restaurant in here somebody just took a day not even a day second second to burn everything out with a cigarette oh my goodness where were you i was in us you're not even in gala now she were in america i was in america getting ready to come to my grand opening ceremony mommy like i i can't even believe what you're telling me yeah um can we go anywhere else i want to sit down with you and tell me what really happened because like i was excited to talk about what you've done i never knew this is the story behind it let's find a place i don't want you to be standing like can you let's sit down somewhere okay let me show you where it started oh okay this is where i started and everything came down oh this is a bent tree yeah yes it was about 65 feet tall log inside and you can sit everywhere that can take about 350 sitting like 350 seats yes and everything got bent yes mommy like i don't know if i should call you one of the strongest woman who have ever lived you said you were in the us yes i really want to talk to somebody who was around here who saw what happened yes do you know anyone around oh yeah i have my play mom and her name is um going that i call her nana going so please let me go get her because she was the one on the ground so she will give you what really really really happened where is nana going i need to speak to nana going nana nana i really want to talk to you nana going that's nana going i'm your grandchild yes you are grandchild she told me that you were here when the place was standing down yes yes how was the feeling that time oh it was awesome i was up here and you have to imagine that this roof covered every all of this that's how me the top one it covered this it wasn't halfway and you could see it from the street so when it caught on fire i'm at this level and someone said nana mommy mommy your roof is on fire and i looked up and everything was burning so i have to come down down to the ground and young lady margaret grabbed me security lady and fooled me across the field and this is what happened it burnt down and it was huge everyone came it was just one of those hot days here and because i don't sweet tree everyone is running running running from all over it was a beautiful day but look what god has done now back on top we're looking good it's even better than before so it's been a blessing it's not a horror story it's a blessing but they can rebuild god can let you rebuild that's what it's about it's a spiritual place it's a lovely place it sounds like an african american i'm an african american from the land of georgia and how long have you been in gana well i came to gana 1973 just as a tourist just like some of these young people here fell in love with it and gana loved me i love gana you have to wait for me let me finish the video vanish with your daughter and i'll come and tell your story thank you fantastic after all these things that happened to you you managed to continue yes what kept you moving it's god that's all i can say it's god so like after this one got burnt that's when you started the ice cafe i mean the current location yes when this place got burnt and i was sitting down and i thought okay let me just have a point and change the concept a little bit so i went to jamaica and i went to a place that they were selling fish grill fish with um they have something called bami so i said okay then i can do tilapia or cutfish with fryang it's almost the same and that place was um waterlock area that you can even have crabs and those kind of where you have the yes right now yes so i called the fisheries department and they came in um take that hole for me and i got my fish pond so the fisheries they uh they gave me tilapia and one of my cousin called tony to give me the fingerprints of a cutfish about seven thousand fingerprints of cutfish and we just started raising them so from the pond and then how come i'm seeing many touch houses okay so while i was in u.s and i thought of doing this kind of thing my my cousin tony i told him about my concept just do just once more hard and i have the feeling that i will be frying this yam and fry tilapia in a dynamic where people will come all over to buy this kind of yam so when i got here he has built a humongous touch so we kept on adding up one touch to another touch another touch to a touch and now we have what you call the ice cafe and grail people don't even know the story behind it and now you have the eggs village i mean the former ice cafe is now a village wow so that's how god works so i'm so proud of you i'm so glad that you never gave up but i want to know why kumasi seems that you really wanted to do something here why kumasi um people always been asking me why kumasi why kumasi i'm from kumasi and a lot of people think kumasi is slow they don't have night life they don't have any social life and when anybody asks me oh why don't you put your project in a crowd or some place else but kumasi i don't think it will work and i say you just watch me i'll make it work even if atlanta has worked for me why not my own village so i just put a challenge to myself so just go ahead and you know do it in my way and that's how you see it mommy you lived in america for 35 years you've been in garner for 10 good years with whatever that have happened in here you still never gave up i just want to know why you left america in the first place because i have mothers that look like you that are telling me that what amaya i know you are telling us to come back home but i'm not making that step you have done it and i believe that you have succeeded just let me know how you did it why first of all it's not easy to move from like us let me put it us to garner and live here for all this kind of struggling that you encounter and everything but you have to be somebody who have determined that no matter what it is kumasi is where i want to be because i always pray to god please my 55 or 51 faith birthday god should just give me a present of coming back to my um roots roots so when i decided that this is the time i know is is it the time but you won't life is not that simple me you're 55 birthday god made that dream come true yes that is really beautiful you know i just want you to send a message to our fellow brothers and sisters in the dashpera who are thinking of making that step just like you i just want you to speak from the heart what was that message be as i said earlier on life is not simple and coming to garner too is not easy but no matter what i'm still pleading to my brothers and sisters in the diaspora that have you know the feel to come home don't be afraid whatever it is god will make a way so if you come and you fail try again and there will be another chance for you because this is this was not my first time you know i failed i had made me trust trust trust i had a spa those who know me i had a spa in hachu the atomic uh dancing i mean a big old spa that if you enter that place you wouldn't even think you are in garner and you know how ghanians uh oh i did not make money i put about 150 000 us in that thing and everything by the time i get back from us everything was gone whoa so i gave it out it's still there anybody who want to check it out can go to hachu where the total feeling gas station is you can see that thing i just gave it to the girls i say you can have it and make whatever that you want just give it to them yes i just gave it to them so so that was my first thing i tried in garner and i failed you know there's something that you didn't tell me when you are building this ice ice cafe over there yesterday you were telling me that you used to sleep where i had one um a wooden structure right here that's where i used to sleep i know people wouldn't even believe it but i'm for real sleep there yes i slept there for about three months just to get ice cafe going yeah because i live in um sukuban and it's way too far to this place so that was where i was living for me i just want to say thank you so much for sharing your story with me i'm so lucky to know what really happened because i was excited i want to try point and kill but i never knew this is the main story behind it thank you so much for sharing that with me but um if you have something to change about garner what would that be just one thing honesty that's the only thing we are not honest that's all i know with time in with god things will change i mean that's beautiful and what has been the major challenge that you face has you ever established this started establishing this for the challenges it's a whole lot but i can't even name them one by one so and it's a challenge in garner so we have to take it as it is you know what i would love to talk to him more but i think i need to go around with your son just the way i did the last time i don't want to spend too much of your time but thank you so much for letting me know what really happened and i think this story is really inspirational if you're watching this video it's a christmas season inspire a brother a sister today by sharing this video i told you that let's get this video 10 000 likes and 10 000 shares be part of the 10 000 likes and shares for me let me talk to carbs for the rest all right i appreciate your time i appreciate you too thank you thank you hey what's up everything good it's good to see you again man good to see you too the way you smile it seems as if if you haven't all the women in Kumasi and you are COO or CEO and you are COO good to see you again I'm impressed the last time I came you guys have ice cafe and now you have Ike's village why are you building a village in the city because hey now they call this place Kumarika I don't like saying it but Kumasi it's a city in the city because we want to bring back the community feel that our ancestors used to always have and I think that there's nothing better than to cook local food the local way to have the artwork and to have everything all intertwined to just show the modern side of our culture you know what I mean that's beautiful man so I just want to know yeah now you guys are building Ike's village what makes Ike's village so unique there's I say that we have the triple threat here you get the culture and the connection through music through food and also through accommodation now and one thing that you'll notice here is that every room is unique no room is identical so what happens is that you'll go into each room and you'll see different different type of concepts especially borrowed from the seragu women of the north and the color scheme the way of the paintings is everything is borrowed from that particular place the northern part of Ghana and then also what makes the rooms unique is that every single room here is named after a powerful or very influential woman whether in Ghana or whether in America or the Ashanti region can you tell me one of the names of the room is Nana Amasewa who is Nana Amasewa of course my mom your mom she didn't even tell me her name I'm finding out your mom's name from you you know what I love about this place about the architecture using touch roofs when you come in here I feel like I'm home exactly even this symbol genyame symbol yeah makes me feel welcome in here you understand when you come to Ghana culture this edin cross symbol means genyame except god but do you guys have san kofa here because we have so many african-americans africans in the caribbean africans that were born here that even left here it's time for them to san kofa do you know what that means that means return or get back return and come and grab what belongs to you africa belongs to africans so it's time for them to come back here but when we come back here do you have anything that are gonna give it to us exactly we have all of our local food and our delicious meals that we love and we live longer because of them is it a muccia yes this is a muccia kitchen and you know I told you about the triple threat about us also selling the culture through not just accommodation but through food and so we teach you how to make local dishes the local way and this is the local way wow we're gonna learn how to cook food here exactly but tell them that I will be the teacher when they come in here because I used to use a muccia when I was growing up so don't worry when it comes to the city teach you how to cook good food but you gotta take me to the rooms what about if you cook the food they don't like it they can never like my food man only haters say that and I know they don't hate me welcome to icecafe village welcome in guys step in in the building of icecafe village and grill and everything sometimes I'm hungry yeah safety first so we have 11 rooms in here and every room is unique and special in a certain way and if you notice the paintings on the walls also have a touch of feminism in it because it's a borrowed idea from the Serugu women in the northern tribe in Ghana it's a blend of different tribe culture put it together and they are all represented in here in the cultural center of Kumasi amazing yeah so I mean I've seen the rooms and this whole village is right in the center of the city is it affordable for someone like Guatemala oh it's very affordable we believe in value for money so anytime that people come here and we tell them the prices you can get a room for as little or less than 100 dollars just for one room in the city center exactly having the chance to connect back to your roots that's incredible but who are the people that are welcoming here everybody is everybody who wants to get a cultural experience everybody who wants to get in touch with the ancestors come to ice cafe and grill and you'll enjoy yourself come to ice cafe and grill and come and eat and after eating come and spend a night in here talk about it I hope you guys enjoy this amazing episode don't forget to like share and subscribe once again Feliz Navidad