 How are you all doing? I hope you all are doing fine. Good morning from the Vota region of Ghana. The capital city to be precise. This place is called Ho. Yeah so if you don't know Ho, Ho is in the Vota region of Ghana but I felt so good this morning because I woke up from Vota Serene hotel. The environment itself is so serene. I'm supposed to spend my whole time in here but I cannot do that. I got to know a young man who is doing incredible stuff in here. You know what? I told you that 2032 I'm not gonna joke with you guys. I'm here to inspire you. I'm here to inspire you to go out there and start something. This guy I'm talking about in here said he's a big fan of Wadamaya. He started his own pigry with just one pig man and currently he owns 200. I think it's something that I need to put on camera. A big shout out to Silverstar Property for giving me a car to help me promote Ghana better and I just want to say a big shout out to Japan Motors for offering Nissan Navara. I mean we've been driving around the Vota region. We've got a lot of portals but this car is super strong. And don't forget that this car is assembled right here in Ghana. Come with me. Let's go meet this young amazing entrepreneur. Welcome to How are you doing? You know I came to enjoy Vota Serene Hotel and I was told that there's a young man who watched my videos. Who is doing incredible stuff? I'm a big fan. A big fan? I'm a very big fan. I've been a fan since 2014. When you went China and your first video, the one that went viral, the one that you're eating in the Gata. I was actually watching it live. When you were premiering the video. Through you, I followed Tyu, those guys in Nigeria, your lady, Ms. Trudi, I subscribed to all their channels. You guys are the real inspirations watching you make us who we are today. I'm so emotional right now but what I want to say is that because of what you've done that's why I'm here. My name is Wodemaya, the one and only annoying village boy from Ghana. I'm on a journey to change the narrative. I'm on a journey to inspire so many youth of Africa to go out there and spark a change. One of the people that are changing the narrative about we just going to school and coming out, sitting on an office. Looking for employment, looking for someone to pay you, for what you can do and get much more. What? Is this shoes for me? Yes, it's for you. This guy wants me to remove my shoes. Yeah, you have to remove your slippers. Today you are not going to be in slippers. As for today, I'm not giving you the chance to be in slippers. Don't worry man, don't worry. Thank you. Thank you so much. Let me let me let me give you a brief history about my farm. Your farm? Actually it started in my mom's kitchen. Yeah. Your farm started in your mom's kitchen? Yeah. What kind of farm started in the kitchen? A pigry. It didn't pigry. Yeah. It started pigry in your mom's kitchen. In my mom's kitchen? How? I wasn't having space. I wasn't having money. I was a national service personnel. So the payment that I got from national service, I started, I used it to buy four piglets that I kept in my mom's backyard. They keep, they like her kitchen. There's a little space there. So I kept the pigs there for almost six months until I was able to make two structures. So this farm started in the kitchen. So you have two structures right now? Yeah, we have two structures that can take maybe about 300 animals. So the national service money that you made, that's what you use? Yeah, that's what I used to set up this farm. How much was your farm? 350. 350 series. You paid 350 series? Yeah, we paid 350 series. So you started your business with 350? Yeah, I started my business with 350 series. Wait, wait. How many pigs do you have right now? I have over 100 pigs. Almost 200. That's us now. Yeah, and even we are in the off season. So during festive seasons, we have more. So let's say we have sold so far. The farm is, the farm will be three years this February. And we have sold more than 400 animals. Whoa. Yeah. Listen, you're born and raised in. I was born and raised in Huw. I've never left Huw. I'm a village boy like you. You say this guy knows me a lot man. Born and raised in Huw. I'm born and raised in Huw. I got everything that I had in Huw. I'm an agreek engineer as well. I'm a bachelor's degree holder in agreek engineering. Listen, my brother did agreek engineering, yeah? Yeah. But he doesn't even want to have any to do with agriculture. But anyway, my brother is still in, he's the one managing my father's cocoa farm. Okay. Let me know. What really inspires you to do what you do? Let's see, for example, I have love for animals. That's one side of me. So since I was a kid, I knew, I knew I would become a farmer. Yeah. It's my dream to be a farmer. So I want to help others as well and be an entrepreneurship for farmers. Whoa. So which means that? I want to be an entrepreneur. You want to be an entrepreneur? Yeah. Yeah, I'm already an entrepreneur. Yeah. And I'm a consultant as well. So I set up farms for people. You set up farms? Yeah, I set up farms, yeah, in Huw and around Huw. I do drop-on, Niver have farms, time bear, different, different locations. So let me understand. So you set up farms for them and they pay you, right? Yeah. I do the setup for you. I come, I check the land, the structure. We have two systems. What we have here is the deep litter in the concrete system. So I, I can do both. So it depends on what the customer wants. Listen, I have to put this guy's number on the screen. This is a personal appeal. If you're looking forward to have a pre-grip farm, he's the right person to contact, even if you're in Akra, he said he has never left home, but he will still come to Akra, Kumasi, Takrati to set up your pre-grip farm for you. I mean, keep him busy. Let's keep him busy, you know. Let's keep him busy. Brother, come with me. Don't want to be farmers. They don't want to be farmers. They don't, they don't understand. They think farming is dirty or it doesn't pay. But the actual fact is we import a lot of food into the country whilst we are unemployed. Why can't we produce the food here? These pigs that you are seeing here, they are eight weeks old. How many weeks? Eight weeks. Eight weeks? Yeah. So how long is it going to take for it to be ready for the market? Six months. So this month, almost all of them sell more than 1,000 ganasidis. So if you have 10, you are making 10,000. So as a young guy and you are waiting for someone to pay you. To pay you 2,000 and 5,000. Yeah, ganasidis a month. Can actually start something. Yeah, you can start something. Teach us, bro. This year I'm teaching people how to fish, yeah. So I don't have money here. I want to be a pick farmer. A pick farmer. But what is the first thing that I need to do? The first thing you have to do is you have to look for land. That's the most important thing. Then after the land you have to set up the structures. The structures, even you have to make the structures in such a way that the pigs will be very clean. But is it not expensive to set up structures? Yeah, it's quite expensive. So you have to start gradually. Gradually. Yeah, so I sold some, I'll buy materials. Then some will give birth. You wait for them. It doesn't take long. This one is all in three years. You've been able to do this in three years? In three years. So he's trying to tell you that it's not a matter of you just starting today and making it today. Making it today. No. It's a process. It's a process. It's a long process. You still want to show me something? Yeah, I want to show you. Let's take a look. Yeah, normally we do ginger and other crops here as well. In the dry season. Yeah, we do. So I have farmhorns and woodymire. If I tell you, I've been able to employ about five people now and I'm paying them. I look after people in school and I pay their school fees. I help the needy children in the community as well. I give back to the community. You give back to the community based on what? Yeah, what I gain from here. This guy's an inspiration man. I don't know if you're watching this video. You have to first of all like this video. It's very important for me. Subscribe to the YouTube channel and share this video because we need to let a lot of the youth of Africa have a piece of this video. I mean, I've been telling guys that agriculture is the future. Let me show you the first pig that I actually got. This is your first pig. Yeah, this is my first pig. This is the one that was in my mom's kitchen. Yeah, this was the one that was in my mom's kitchen. Your mom was not mad at you? She was not mad. People complained. They said whatever, but she wanted me to be successful. Your mom should be proud of you right now. And so listen, this is a male pig. No, this is a female pig. A female pig? Yeah, actually she littered 17 piglets on her first litter. That's how come my farm blew up. But if one female pig, how did the female pig decided to give birth? Yeah, I have companions for her also. But what did you get a companion then? I got them from Accra. From Accra? Yes, yes. So most of my stalks, some are from Cape Coast and the rest, the remaining, they are from Accra. How is it a lucrative business? It's very, very lucrative. It pays a lot. It pays a lot? It pays a lot. But you know, the youth of Africa today don't want to be farmers. Yeah, it depends. We have to change their mindset. What? Yeah, that's what I'm, that's what I'm in for. So this guy, he's now two years. His name is Jones. How did he become your good friend now? Actually, I got him when he was so small. So I had to keep him sometimes, even with my dogs at night. Wow. Yeah. Okay, meet my mother. Mama. Hello. How are you? I'm good. Good to see you. Thank you. I want to ask you, you took your son to school. You went to... I went to, I did a distance course with Cain Vesida. That was my last bachelor's degree in engineering. And then he came back and started a pig farm in your kitchen. Yes. Were you not mad that he's doing pig in your kitchen? No, I was happy. Really? Yes. Why were you happy? Because he's doing something good. He started something good. That's why I didn't mind. Oh wow. But you were not mad the fact that you took him to school, you expect him to be in a suit in the morning, go to work. You didn't want to see that? No. Really? This one to his good. This one to his good? Yes. Wow. I guess a lot of African parents have to be in the home. Yeah, yeah. They are almost all of them. They are like, all our moms. We are their first love. All our moms, yeah. But some of our moms want to see us in suits. Yeah. We are going to make it. We've made it in life. But I'm just going to tell you that your mom should be proud of you right now. Mommy, are you proud of him? Yes. I'm very proud. Maya, this is a small poke. I'm already washing my eyes. This is what we call a ham roast. Ham roast. Yeah. I love the fact that these days, any farmer that I go and meet, they already prepare something for me from farm to my stomach. Ah, not to your stomach. Directly to your stomach. My stomach. See, I want to tell you thank you so much for being an African, not an African. Okay. So which means that if you are an African, you are capable of doing great stuff in Africa. And sorry, but are you going to enjoy this meat with me or is this for myself? It's for you. Your name is even on the poke. Hey, if you grow, I see. Maya. Turn the camera, turn the camera. Maya. If you grow, there's what the Maya written on the poke. Huh? Yeah. That how? This is your name. How? Your name is on the poke. My name is on the poke. Yeah. I'm even in a hurry. Mommy, what do you want to help me? I can help you. Whoa. Hey, I'm sorry, you know, anyone who wants to eat the poke has to eat the side. Yeah. Your name is for you. It's for, it's for, it's for the Maya. It's for the Maya. Whoa. Bro, I want to say you are an inspiration and I keep doing what you do. Don't stop. I believe that after this day, what is, what do you want to see yourself in the next five years, man? God just opened doors for me. And the doors, by the time I come back here next time, we'll be having 20,000 pigs. We'll be having 20,000 pigs. Thank you so much for having me, man. Thank you for visiting me. It's a pleasure. Oh, thank you, but I'm so glad that my camera guy don't eat poke. He's not a Muslim. Okay. He's the only Muslim guy who doesn't eat poke. Okay. You guys want just grab a two beer, then let's enjoy this. I'll see you all in the next one. Thank you.