 I want to ask you this question, are you a billionaire? I'm not, I'm not a billionaire, I'm not even, I don't know. As for wealth, I can't say I'm a rich man. No, I can't say I'm a rich man. Then who are you then? I'm a rich man, every person, yes. Doc, I think it's all about the mindset. Yeah, yeah, because if I say I'm rich, yeah, right, if I come and say I'm rich, because I was in America, right? America, they have billionaires, dollars, right? So if you have some cities, say you are a billionaire, you know, Africa, apart from that, Dengote, who's rich in Africa? Nobody. The fact I know are some few South Africans. Ghana, who's rich in Ghana? Yeah, no, no. There's two to four money that we have, no, you know. So if you go and meet the actual billionaires in America, they'll make a lot of dollars in a month, not hours. So for me, I don't see myself as a rich person. So don't be ordinary. See, if I say good morning, good morning. But it's an underwritten, good morning, say good morning. So what have you achieved? I've achieved anything. If you are a big difference, I say, oh, we are a man. So help while sleeping, wake up. When everybody wake up, you know, start crawling, when everybody's crawling, turn up, when everybody's turned up, start walking. When everybody's walking, right? Start jogging. When everybody's jogging, start running. When everybody's running, then you fly. My name is Wadamaya, your one and only annoying village boy who's on a journey to change the negative narrative of Africa by celebrating African excellence. But my travels across Africa have made me come to conclusion that most successful African entrepreneurs are not known and celebrated by Africans. And this is why I feel like it's my responsibility to bring the unknown to the limelight. It's my responsibility to celebrate every single African who is doing something great to change the narrative of Africa. I am Wadamaya. Believing in the motherland, celebrating every African. I am Wadamaya. Through Africa. Mr. Ghana, baby! Africa to the... Listen, I just had to sing this song for you guys because I'm super excited. It's good to celebrate Africans that are changing the narrative of Africa in their own way. This is Ghana and this is not a capital city of Ghana. This is the western region of Ghana and the legend that I'm going to celebrate today. This man was born in the forest. He grew up in this village. He left to the city to hustle and he became the founder of this prestigious company that you and I boast of because this is a Ghanaian-owned company. This is one of the highest paid tax companies in Ghana. Do you know the founder of Casa Preco? Will you ever believe that the person behind this great company was born in the forest? Listen, have you heard of Signature? This beautiful building that you're seeing belongs to him. Have you heard of Casa Globa? He's the man behind it. Have you heard of Amenfi Plaza? He's the man behind it. Have you heard of this mineral water that is competing with so many foreign-based mineral water in Ghana? You're not awake. So you better drink awake today so that you will be awake and celebrate your own. If I were you from today onwards, the only water that I will ever drink is awake mineral water. This man has done a lot for this country and I believe that if you're an African, especially Ghanians, if you're seeing this video, I'm pleading with you to share this video to anyone that you can. Let's celebrate our own. Let's celebrate this living legend. Let's celebrate the giants of Ghana together. Thank you. At this story, who blew your mind? Can you believe it? Being born in the forest, you were born here? I was born here. Did you grow up here? Yes. For the first 13 years of my life, it was here. I had never traveled anywhere, but here for the first 13 years. How was your childhood like growing up from here? Very challenging, because even here, this cottage, this village, I was my mother and father. Only my father and my mother and myself lived in the middle of the forest. Middle of the forest? So I used to walk about the most five miles in the morning to come to school here. This is where I started my schooling, on this very plot. The one that you used to walk two hours to come? Exactly. From the forest in here? Yes. So it was, I think, class one, class two, class three, class four, class five, class six. This very plot. And after school, I go back to the forest. Live the forest, go out there, make it big, and come back and retire in the forest. I'm a villager. I want to live in the village. I live in the village. I eat what the villagers eat. You grow your own tend, and eat what your own tend does it. So can I call you a village man? I'm a village man. And when he retired, he decided to build himself a castle in the forest. But listen, this man is so modest to the extent that he doesn't even want to accept the fact that he's living in a castle. He called this place a house. You know, when I build a family house for my family, not my children. That's the extended family. I'm the head of the Ibeana family. I'll show you the old building to inherit. But it's a family house. It's a family house, yes. I've got my private one at the back. But Doc, you're calling that a family house? It's a family house, yes. I know, like, you're so modest. That's a family castle. Okay. A family house, because we had it before. We had it before. We had it before. When I saw the ceiling, the TNG that they did about 150 years ago, I said, wow. You know, and that inspired me to do something like this. I was so inspired by my forefathers. I thought they had a lot of wealth. But because I came to meet the good ornaments. A lot of good ornaments. A lot. Yeah. So I believe the family in general was rich. But along the line, they lost it. But after being there, I think that is the castle from heaven to earth. But you know why so many people don't know this man? Because he's not loud. He makes his work, speak for himself. I don't believe being out there would add any value to what I'm doing. You see, you know, sometimes I'm talking about, you see, Egel, when the Egel wants to hunt, you know, it's steady, it's prey, you know, and go down the streets and pickets. You know that. The sea. Yeah. Even they can't even catch snakes. You know, tell them to pick it and tell them to go. So our focus, not being from buoyant, you know, so mine is focus, focus, focus. So probably most of you have seen his product out there, but you don't know that he's the man behind it. Let me help you. Casa Preco. Signature. I mean, this beautiful building that you've been seeing in Accra belongs to him. Accidential, it's about signature. Signature. Signature is one of our, that is our, that's my name because it's a signature. So it's a different design altogether. Okay. It's about 230 apartments. Why the name signature? It's my signature because I give the name as my signature. But I believe that you and I didn't know that this building belongs to him. You know why? It's not everything that you do publicity. That's why for me, I'm not a media person. I don't like the media, but sometimes you cannot hide. That's why I'm giving the interview to you. No, people call me for interview. This one like this. Once it comes out, they start calling me and accusing me. Why did you give interview to Maya? Maya. You are called interviewer. He said no. Aha. Whatever is special, yeah? You guys need to understand that. He does not grant interviews, but I guess I found an interview about him in 2016 when he won the EY World Entrepreneurship of the Year. Dr. Quabena Ajay, you're a group chairman at Casa Preco and you are obviously entrepreneur being Ghana. Congratulations for that. You're quite an inspiration to a lot of us entrepreneurs. We've got a lot of young entrepreneurs who are watching the show right now. A lot of us start businesses, but we fail to run them for a longer period. How have you been able to succeed in business, sir? Business means we have the same attitude, the same play. To be successful in business, first, you should have a passion to succeed. Because I always say that nothing succeeds better than success. Can you believe it? The whole world picked him from Ghana to celebrate him. I want us to celebrate this man today. Share this video share this video to your dad. If you are a dad and you are watching this video you can share this video to your children. Let them get to know this living legend, living in Ghana that our people are not celebrating him. But since he was born in the village he only granted this interview because I'm the village boy. But, yo, it's not just because I'm the village boy. I'm the new son in the family. You're my son. Oh, I'm not a son, yeah? You're my son. And after spending time with him, I came up with a conclusion that he is a visionary. Well, yes, because with that vision we get lost. Anyone with that vision we get lost. So, that's why people get stuck. You go in the circles. It's called a rat race, right? But these things for me I am an old man, right? I'm not doing it for myself. I'm doing it for for the generation. It has to be for the generation I'm thinking. Do you think generational worth is something that Africans should look into? It's very important. It's very important because you pass on like a route, you know, you make a path and then your generation will definitely go through the path. You know, yeah. So for me I am as a family head, I'm reading for my family, my immediate family and also even my external family. External family. So I'm taking good care of my I'm taking care of my family members education. Yeah. Every member, I didn't tell you yesterday, every member from my clan, you know, who called for university education as a sponsor, you know, so that you can go the base of your clan. You know, my children, I'm doing the same thing. My grandchildren, I'm doing the same thing. You know, I set up a fund for my grandchildren. Whoa. Education I found, yes, all of them have got it. So that when do we reach 18 years that they're going to the university level, right? Whether their father have money or not, their grand parents have already set up the fund for them. This man is an industrialist. Yeah. My name is William Akunu Ata. I'm the senior manager of research and development for Herbal Farms and Research Limited. This is the first out of group chairman. This is where he used to live and this is where he started Casapraco Company Limited. We currently use it for the production of concentrates for Casapraco Company Limited. It grew at a proportion, you know, we produce and we are loading on the streets suddenly the sun unloading, you know. But fortunately for me because of the generation I think I've already acquired and learned through our current locations, you know. So at a point he says let's go and build a factory because we cannot be loading inside the sun. It's really hard to cover quickly with the Napoleon. So that's where I went to Germany to also go and buy Siemenske Hand Tomatik machine lines. So around now when we came to our new facility we are no more doing manual washing again and then we are transited from the manual washing to Siemenske Tomatik so I went to Germany to buy the used machinery from Germany. We did that for more. You know. And then the Nigerians came in the Nigerians head of the product a little bit especially. And then they started coming in. So I made a line now that the money was coming actually. So I wasn't using the money also because I already invested in the business so I bought another line from Nigeria and it could not even survive them. They come and say I they don't load me they don't load me. You know so actually it got prompted me to go and buy a brand new line from Kronz. You know a brand new fast line from Kronz and one line I was doing about 35,000 bottles per hour. Wow. And then the Kronz asked me are you going to use a line for water or for alcohol. But the general it was booming in Nigeria you know they just were buying a lot. This man right here is a philanthropist and his philanthropic works is on another level. When he returned back to his village he decided to transform the entire village and you believe it. Let's start from the personal level because it's a family man he decided to transform his family house into what a family castle. He built a school for his own people. I built a school for them I built a computer lab for them they have internet through other books and I gave them lights pool from the beginning probably 30 years ago I bought a light pool they put the light pools on to see the government and the government brought the wires. So when I built this house I built this school also for them so when I was here I was like a headmaster here the teachers had to come to school early because I'm watching you from here the children know that I was watching them when I was here. That's how your house is opposite the school. And he realized that you can't have education but health is important and he realized that there is no hospital in the entire village and all the villages surrounding it so he decided to build them a modern polyclinic. And then I built the clinic recently polyclinic with a theater with Esri Cedren's World May World treatment room lab it is there right now so I did that one too. After going to polyclinic a facility being put up by Kata Pako Company Limited Okay being put up as in it was built and then furnished by Kata Pako Company Limited You mean everything here Everything you see around is from Kata Pako Company Limited Not from the government? No The village that he was born did not have water so he decided to dig a borehole to supply water to the entire village he didn't want to make life in the village so boring so he decided to use his network to bring MTN to the village to connect internet across the entire village so when I was there I was using internet I never felt like I was living in a village he realized that since this village is going to have some kind of fan vibe there are some people that would definitely misbehave so he decided to what bring police station he built it himself and the public servants that are coming to the village to serve the government he gives his own house to them I gave my first building that happened when I was 24 years at Vaku time 24-26 years around that time it was a very nice building but I gave it out to the teachers then my father's house recently I also put it in good order to give it to the teachers I was born in the village and the first time I used watercloth set was when I found myself in China so places like this where the clothes set is too modernized for them so he decided to transform this because of the toilet facility with flashing facility we are even here to commission it probably we commission it this week for the first time everybody who comes here will go and help so it's where you can flash and then we have done bow gas so that the bow gas we are trying to see if we can use even the gas to do something later on so that's how it is this is used to be the toilet that the villagers use and they still use it it's not like they are not using it anymore they still use it and decided to transform what you see right now to what is over there I was very busy you don't think a man like this need to be celebrated I have been there before I mean this that he's talking about it's not like we making it up but I've lived a life like this before where you just go squat do your thing and you don't even have zero paper you use the bushes scrub your and then you go back home so what you are talking about is food right security communication medicals right and education you have distance in your village if you are in Temauakra and I'm here there's no difference no difference this village have everything I feel like there is one thing that is missing I never knew that the visionary man had it in mind when I came here we set up about 5 year development plan for the village where we said ok we will do a school we will do a police station we will do a clinic right and a bank is coming here very soon yesterday they were here a small bank a bank is coming here so where the cocoa farmers can easily go and deposit their money also inspire I mean keeping money and not spending this because the money is with you the tenses that you can spend it is very easy but if you bank at the bank so that's why I'm helping the villagers to set up a small bank so I already spoke to I mean from my royal bank they have rented a facility here and they are going to start putting their bank very soon so very soon there will be a bank here and after spending time with him I found out that he is also religious I mean I feel like successful people that I have come in contact with are so religious and he is not an exception I believe in God whatever you do for me that's my belief I believe that all the start there might be something behind it and also I believe that there is life after death because the Bible says that at a point God will raise the living and the death that's why Jesus Christ also raised Lazarus when you were there for 3 or 4 days to show you that what you have done today it can be done tomorrow and you believe that he built a church for God when I saw what this man has been able to achieve and knowing where he was born there was this question that was going through my mind how would someone born in a place like this come this far so does it mean that anyone can be successful? I believe so I believe so it's about the determination it doesn't matter where you born no no no it doesn't matter where you born it's about you see I think this thing about success right? if you are poor or if you are born in a very poor environment it's just like you are being put in a hole you know a hole but if you are determined you cannot remain the hole forever you have to come up struggle to come up most of us know the boot to struggle to come up so we are born in the hole we stay in the hole and die in the hole your children will also come they are born in the hole they die in the hole then you cause the right race you are going round and round so you need to struggle to come up struggle to come up and the struggle is yourself not me everybody do it so nobody can race through the hand and bring you up so it's a mental attitude one of the things that you've done in this country in Canada nobody knows that you are the one behind it I know you don't like talking about this is for me what are the things that you've done apart from everybody know you to be what are the things that you've done in the country that nobody knows that you did well initially I heard that somebody delivered at a hospital and they detained because you cannot pay the fee to be the charge I just told my officer 2000 gonna see this let's go and pay you go and pay and they never tell the charge the guy will tell me that the people want to come and thank me so that's sort of if you have small money and you give some hours that will not let you collapse your company why don't you do it that's why this place at a point I was thinking of everybody everybody who goes to the school everybody from this time had especially from me everybody because I thought I could afford it so why don't I give it to somebody who can afford it one thing that I really want you all to know that successful people start from somewhere and this is how he made his first money you know how I made my money I'll tell you this story because I was on the street for some time it toughened me up so just imagine you being on the street for some time with guys and then getting a formal employment that's easier because I have friends now so in the morning oh Charlie you brought KK I'll come and eat so when I joined the Valko we met Sisu Sisu and I think Sisu that you made you take all the money this month it's for you all 100% right the next month it's for this person and next month so I was the last person to take it so I think about the 7th month I took the money that's how I got the money to be trading that's the story and that's the money that I had to today hasn't left me not that I had money from anyone that's Sisu money that's Sisu money that's how I've natured it from that time to this time that money has never left my hand on behalf of all Africans Dr. Kobena Ajay we say and listen I got a chance to spend 3 days with him and go for fishing catch and eat let's do this one you eat what you catch let's go I'm ready if you don't catch you are not eating and that 3 days that I spent with him I decided to do almost 5 videos so the whole channel this week we are celebrating the living legend my dad I mean my new dad whether you like it or not since he is a village boy a village uncle the village man on this platform so stick and stay subscribe to be part of this channel the videos might be probably long because imagine all his life without an interview and what am I is here I'll bring all the details out so most of the videos that I'll be uploading next week 30 minutes 40 minutes even an hour so yeah stick and stay subscribe like the video share to your friends and family I really want the president to repost this video for me can we make it happen tag his excellency I feel like this man right here needs an honorary award from the president I'll see you all in the next one I am Maya peace out I'll be gone