The Big ConversationsOn the 16th of March, 2024 which happened to be a Saturday, a life-transforming conference was held at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST by the Empower Young Lives Africa (EYLA). This organization has the sole vision of transforming youthful minds in all ages across the continent of Africa in different institutions whether tertiary, second-cycle institutions and beyond in every possible way.
This year's edition happened to be held in Kumasi and featured a lot of successful businessmen, entrepreneurs and more who came to talk to students, workers who came from KNUST and other surrounding tertiary institutions and secondary school nearby were also not left out.
Some of the invited guests include: Eugene Kotoku, Host- Prophet Prakash Pyne, Dr Daniel Mckorley, Apostle Joe Addai Kusi, Oswald W Anonagada.
The program was dubbed 'NEW WORLD LEADERS AFRICA SUMMIT' and started at exactly 9:00am with participants sharing their expections for their distinguished presence. Right after that, the speakers mounted the stage one after the other to deliver their insightful talks and answered questions troubling the minds of the youths who are serious about their tomorrow.
Now the conversations and talks in detail
Let's dive into the conversations that occurred in other that those who couldn't attend the event can also know about what really transpired in order that they can make time for subsequent episodes.
He talked about how the current generation of youths in Ghana and beyond and encouraged that the youths must be focused on breaking the code to become successful individuals and not join themselves to the unemployed group of the nation. He shared his own personal story through a short movie he acted by himself purposely to tell his story better and went ahead to share his experience as someone who went through really tough times after school and through his encounter with Empower Young Lives Africa (EYLA), he learnt a lot and challenged himself to explore the world of forex trading which has given him financial freedom. According to Mr. Eugene, he has an academy that trains the youth especially to acquire a job right after completion and has since trained 25million people and and is still training more. More than 10 people from the event were granted a scholarship or support by him to study from his academy which the awardees appreciated a lot.
One participant asked to understand the kind of code he meant must be broken. He responded that the code is not referring to a Mathematical algorithm but the natural way and thinking of the mass which does not yield any different change or improvement of any sort. It was a moment of motivation and mind driving journey interaction with the business man.
In fact, Apostle Joe Addai emphasized on the need to master ones craft and also the art of reading and writing as very essential skills for every successful person. He talked about how highly the Jewish people value knowledge by taking the entire participants through some data and virtual tour of monumental structures and figures all around the world to shake the mind of the audience about the need to be eager to learn and have knowledge cutting across all sphere. He iterated the essence of reading not just in ones field of study but having an open-minded reading habit to broaden a person's view of how world systems run or work.
Another fascinating thing about his talk was about networking which he mentioned might not be effective in certain instances where the other side has a level of knowledge that unmatches the other person. The audience were amazed about his strict reading and writing culture that he's structured and also how he is able to create an inventory of knowledge. He encouraged everyone to have a knowledge inventory as well and according to him, reading extensively in ones field of expertise as well as an all-round reading habit broadens a person's scope and help to build capacity thereby rendering a person very resourceful and valuable to others.
A software engineer who has accomplished significant projects with one of his works reaching global heights and received international recognition for the value of his system. For him young and aspiring entrepreneurs and leaders must dream bit but then make sure to find relevant knowledge especially in the international front to equip them break barriers and achieve their goals.
One of the speakers everyone was waiting to hear speak as he is one of Ghana's successful business moguls contributing significantly to her economy and beyond. Talk about his lines of companies known as McDan Group of Companies that deals in logistics and a whole lot more.
Key things he spoke about makes a successful business person:
- God factor
- Attitude
- Discipline
When asked how he got his first capital, he answered that was a tough question but then it was from a customer he rendered service to and from there the money was invested into the business and gradually progress was made. Obviously, history of success is not without challenges as he recounted the times he did some menial works just to keep up thigs going and even at some point lost business properties and all but needed to bounce back failure is part of the journey but shouldn't be a determiner of failure. He made a profound statement, "You do not expect to get what you do not inspect".
One of Ghana's own who has also made Ghana very proud as he always put the country and Africa at large on the global stage to be appreciated by all. A top notch Youtuber who is known for his dedication for what he does. However, he didn't leave out his humble beginning of the start where as a graduate of Aviation Engineering from China, he had to come and start his venture of adventure in Ghana. He narrated it was a very tough decision which was not appreciated by the father initially but now the results are there to prove and the reason why he advised the audience to be honest and not give up when results are not visible from the start of anything they do.
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