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did a number on us, but also explain it. I didn’t know very much three years I did a lot of free jobs,
the way things turned out after about PR, but I’m learning every but then I realized it’s coz of this
colonialism. day. I think number one, if you are conviction I had, and I loved what
As I visit different Afrikan countries, convicted that this is what you are I was doing. I later realized it was
I realize we don’t know who we are supposed to be doing, the rest you God who was working in me to do
and we don’t understand what we leave to Him. You continually ask and to will and for this platform to
carry. Afrika is like a sleeping giant Him, “Is this what I’m supposed to be birthed for Him, but I know even
and grass is growing on it and be doing?” I believe each person now after seven years there’s
everyone is taking advantage of has been called for a particular much more as we get into the new
us. Right now we seem to feel like thing on earth and our businesses beginning.
we have to look to the west or east or our jobs are some of the things
for them to define who we are, that we express what we are Any last words for young
but once we understand who we called to do, but also on a higher entrepreneurs and would-be
are when our identity is restored level, they are gates that need to entrepreneurs?
and we can become who we were be possessed for God. So, what
I don’t think I want to talk to young
meant to be. Even the ones that are these gates? Have you been
entrepreneurs alone, but anyone
are calling us third world have able to recognize that this is the
who wants to be an entrepreneur.
taken minerals, human labor et conviction that God has given
As I said earlier, it’s about the
cetera, from us. you about family, about media, conviction that you have. If you
Of course it will take a renewal of about education, about arts, about
have a conviction and you know
the mind for the people of Afrika science? Out of that then you’re
this is what you’re supposed to do,
to realize who they are, and a able to walk with Him every day
I think you should go ahead and do
lot of healing, because for many and sometimes you don’t have
it, if not there’s always something
years the people of Afrika have to see the bigger picture; I didn’t else that can be done. Be
thought of themselves in a certain have the bigger picture. You don’t
passionate about it and know that
way, but in the recent past you’ve have to have a five-year plan, you
the journey of entrepreneurship
seen announcements being know?
is a journey of patience and
made by different Afrikan icons. It’s just to trust the Lord with all
perseverance. There are so many
’Yes we can’ or ‘Your dreams are your heart and continually walk things you learn on the way to
valid’ or ‘No human is limited’ like with Him even while not having
becoming an entrepreneur, it’s
Eliud Kipchoge. There are many the bigger picture. I believe having
not a one-day thing. As long as
announcements being made from a conviction about what one is
you have that conviction and start
Afrika, especially from Kenya doing is very important because it
moving then there’s much more
(being very critical in Afrika) but means you can even do it for free. that is going to be opened for you
then if you go down the road to a When I started, the first two years,
and there’s much more that you’re
village, to the market, you’ll find
going to learn.
Kenyans complaining about Kenya
because they don’t understand
our identity. I have discovered that
when you’re so clear in your mind MEDITATE ON THIS
who you are, there’s a potential
you rise into, so I believe Afrika Where a man’s treasure is, there will his heart be and where a man’s heart
needs to rise to that potential. is, that will be the object of his pursuit. Happiness and its pursuit have
become what many are talking about globally, and the acquisition of that
What words would you give which gives them most happiness is what many are chasing. Some chase
others in Afrika concerning after the ever elusive happiness, doing whatever it takes to get it. But
allowing God to constantly obviously, as we all can see, the pursuit of happiness in this world is like
a chase after shadows and dust. It’s a mirage. And the reason is simple.
lead them in their businesses Happiness and the state of happiness as they relate to materialism,
or even in places of emotional gratification, pursuit of status, fleshly desires are nothing but
employment? transient feelings of futility. They are here one minute and gone the next
I would encourage them to minute. Every form of materialism always comes with an expiry date and
allow God to lead them from the whatever can expire is not worth the chase of an entire lifetime. You don’t
beginning. To know if this is the have to believe me that the chase of futile happiness is nonsense, but the
place that they’re supposed to be proof always comes at the death bed.
at in terms of employment or in
terms of starting a business. What FOR COUNSEL ON DOING BUSINESS GOD’S WAY, PLEASE USE:
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