‘We Must Have African based Solutions for African Problems’!
“My desire is to have very many fellow Africans believe in themselves as an element of reason taking responsibility to accept our identity as Africans born and belonging in Africa and together Africans can uplift the mother continent.”, said Ham.
Young African billionaire and businessman Hamis Kiggundu most known as Ham hosted Ghana’s Berthold Kobby Winkler Ackon, popularly known as Wode Maya, a YouTube personality, vlogger, digital media influencer who explored his different projects including the white house replica, 500 luxury homes at Ham Palm Villas and Ham’s Residence along the shores of Lake Victoria in Kawuku-Bunga.
Wode Maya is a popular Ghanaian YouTube content creator with a mission to correct the Distorted Image of Africa around the World, by changing the Narratives using his YouTube videos taken from one Country at Time.
According to Maya; Until the History of Africa is told by Africans, the story of Greatness will always Glorify the Imperialists!
Wode Maya’s content is curated to explore Africa’s development, and excellency and share the experiences of successful Africans on the continent and those living abroad. He aims at unveiling the unknown positive side of Africa to the World.
While touring the Ham residence, Wode Maya was shocked by the great success Ham has achieved at his age he is an inspiration to young Africans who look up to him (Ham).
Whereas Ham doesn’t take pride in interviews with cameras exploring his wealth and personal life, Wode Maya had the chance to speak to the young billionaire one on one as he toured The White House Uganda, Ham’s multibillion-dollar residence, Nakivubo Stadium, Ham Agro-Processing industries Ham Palm Villas, among other ongoing projects.
During his discussion with Wode Maya, Ham went deep into what one would call Pan-Africanism noting that Africa is full of opportunities, mineral resources, and raw materials which are exploited by the west who instead keep Africa poor with donations that come as a result of our own resources.
” What’s the difference between the west and Africa despite the fact that Africa owns 80% of the world’s resources yet exploitation takes place in the West and they claim they donate to Africa simply because we haven’t figured out how to utilize the prevailing resources we have at hand naturally to exploit them towards our own prosperity” Ham said during an interview with Wode Maya.
Ham further added that Africans are still stuck with poor reasoning thus the need for mindset change if Africa is to develop.
” If we want to develop and elevate Africa, I think we should attack the minds of Africans if we can get Africans to reason, I think we shall have solved all the problems of Africa, if Africa owns the majority of the world’s resources yet we are still donated to up to date, we take resources in raw materials, Minerals and they are brought back in form of peanuts in donations. What stops us from the utilization of the available resources and their exploitation towards our own prosperity?, Ham wondered.
According to Ham, there is a need for unity if Africa is to develop as a continent.
” It takes reason for Africa to unify but we cannot unify physically if we haven’t unified in the mind, we talk about borders but these borders are not physical, the real borders of Africa are in our minds. If we agreed mentally that we take out the borders, I think they would be out but we fail to reason even on the simplest things. Africa would have one unified flag, Africa Would have a free trading zone, and Africa would be travelling on one passport. Why do I need to cross from here to South Africa through a visa? The limiting factor of our ability to grow despite the resources we hold as a continent is reason”, Ham added.
Ham also revealed that Africa’s education system which is ‘imported and imposed’ has done more harm than good to young Africans which has seen the majority leaving Africa to go abroad.
” An education system is supposed to provide corresponding solutions or build the society and the young generation with the capacity to solve problems within the prevailing circumstances but these imported and imposed education systems don’t address our problems as Africans the way they are on the ground” Ham noted
When asked the major challenge encountered on his journey to success, the young billionaire said it’s Negativity mostly from Ugandans and Africans at large whom he said always take pride in pulling down whoever they see going up due to their inability to reason out the fact that only one who is up (Successful) can uplift others to succeed as well but not otherwise.
He continued that negative people hate successful people so much but it is rather reasonable not to hate them back as individual prosperity amongst a poor society is more of a liability than an asset. Based on “REASON” although we work really hard to succeed in life and strive to accumulate wealth, our individual basic survival is limited to a narrow scope of basic needs where regardless of how much money he has, he still eats only one plate of food or less to satisfaction, regardless of his fleet of cars, he only drives one at a time to his destination. Regardless of the size of his house, he only sleeps in one room and on one bed and only one side of it at a time hence reasoning that individual human survival is so basic and limited after seeing how other people lack the basic needs of survival in your living society, that is when you realize that When God blesses you with wealth amongst a poor society, it becomes a big test on your reasoning capacity. The only reasonable way forward is to work towards bettering people’s welfare and improving their society but not just being limited to individual prosperity.
When Wodemaya asked him what he is doing different to have a different status and level of success from fellow agemates living under the same circumstance, He said REASON. That it is the way he reasons out the different challenges that he faces from time to time, that differs.
The young billionaire said he built the house out of love for his country as illustration to all Ugandans and Africans to invest here. He said Ugandans and Africans as a whole don’t invest in their own countries. We’ve been brainwashed by our western-imposed educational systems and western social media platforms into thinking that the West is somehow superior to us.
“From the time Africans go to school, we start dreaming of going to America or Europe for the chance of a better life. We study so hard, and then work equally as hard for an opportunity to get out of Africa. We leave our homeland and head for the West, then work towards the development of these western countries, leaving Africa our motherland in absolute poverty,” he said
“Why leave and go to the US when we can bring the US here to us?” he says. “We have to be willing to change our mindset. We have to be willing to reason,” he adds.
When asked why he chose the Agro-Processing Project; Ham it is beneficial to the entire Ugandan community and not just him as an individual as it has the capacity to transform his country to a very wealthy economy as it equally improves the welfare of majority Ugandans who are stake holders in the different levels of production, right from the out growers deep in the villages. He projects to secure market based on demand from the big economies which he said can easily enter into billion dollar contracts that will subsequently drive the Ugandan economy to a first world highly developed economy within 5-7 years.
He was not happy with politicians and other influencers who keep criticizing the west for their exploitation of Africa and its resources but without addressing Africans inability to reason
He said he is working very had to do all that is doing using African engineers and technocrats in order to illustrate to fellow Africans that what is done in the west can equally be done here and together our motherland can be our dreamland.
“My desire is to have very many fellow Africans believe in themselves as an element of reason taking responsibility to accept our identity as Africans born and belonging in Africa and together Africans can uplift the mother continent to prosperity. “said Ham
The young billionaire assured that “despite the amount of money he has and the kind of negativity from people, he can not migrate to the west but rather pursue general success in his motherland and aim and transforming people’s mindset towards reasoning as the only gateway to individual and national/continental prosperity, that he can’t afford to live with the betrayal of forsaking his mother continent.
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Ham’s Source of wealth
When revealing his source of his wealth, Ham said that he got some reasonable start up-capital from his parents and equally attributed his quick reasonable expansion and wealth accumulation at a tender age to well managed bank loans which he said helped him expand his businesses with God’s blessings as a constant factor but Alhamdulillah, he is now free from loans.
The entrepreneur has ruled out ever receiving any financial assistance from President Yoweri Museveni, whom he said many people have linked his business establishments such as the Ham shopping malls in Kampala.
Ham owns several homes but lives at a palatial one, Ham’s Residence built on 11 acres at the shores of Lake Victoria in Kawuku-Bunga. Ham’s mansion is undeniably one of the most luxurious and expensive residential homes in Africa.
It was locally designed by Ugandan architects and its valued at $30 Million. It has several lounges including the over 300ft main one, a 25-seater luxury cinema hall, 25 bedrooms including a 61ft X 120ft master suite with 4 bathtubs including the bathroom steam bath and sauna.
Despite being by the lakeside, Ham has a 250ft private swimming pool, the home also has a private gaming room with a pool table, football and table tennis table, very green compound with multi-coloured flowers, volley ball court and a Marina with 7 yachts and 4 speed boats. The young billionaire has also built a multi-million-dollar replica of the White House which is the headquarters his Ham Group of Companies offices as seen in the video above.
Advice to aspiring entrepreneurs
Ham advises the upcoming entrepreneurs to take social responsibility, connect their vision to their personal values. “They must have the ability to anticipate change and most importantly they must be courageous enough to abandon their past. In fact, I highly encourage them to find time and read my books, “Success and Failure based on Reason and Reality,” and, “Reason as the World Masterpiece with an open mind”, advises Ham.
He says that all developments, past, present, and future, discoveries to come, were, are and will always be a direct reflection of the reasoning capacity of the people of such a given time frame.
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