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No Matter How Brilliant Your Child Is, If You Are Poor - He/She Might Never Amount To Much!

Truth: your poverty places a natural limit on what your child will become. This is not nice to hear, but study after study has revealed that usually the best available for brilliant kids from poor families is to work for the brilliant kids from rich families. My friend, never ever defend poverty.

I quote "Kids born into the richest 1% of society are 10 times more likely to be inventors than those born into the bottom 50% and this is having a big effect on innovation." (John Van Reenen, MIT Sloan)

Now read the quote again slowly.

This isn’t about intelligence. It’s not about school grades. It’s about exposure, access, and environment. In other words, 'poverty silences genius'.

Let’s bring this home to Africa.

1. You Can’t Invent What You’ve Never Seen

You want your child to become the next Elon Musk? How? When your home has:
- No WiFi.
- No books except textbooks.
- No Lego, no code, no telescope, no microscope, not even basic tools to take things apart and rebuild them.

They’re growing up in a world where survival, not invention, is the daily prayer. Children of the poor learn survival strategies. Meanwhile, the children of the 1% are spending their holidays in Dubai tech expos, doing coding bootcamps at age 9, and have mentors who are venture capitalists and CEOs. Genius is not always born, it's intentionally created.

2. Poor Kids Don’t Get Permission to Tinker

My elder brother struggled with maths, but he always loved dismantling watches and radios to see what's inside. He was severally beaten until he stopped. That was us in the township, but in the suburb, a child who breaks a drone is taken to a robotics camp.

So innovation becomes a class privilege not because of ability, but because one child’s curiosity is punished, and another’s is protected.

3. You Can't Innovate Under Stress

Poverty is a full-time job.

If your child is walking 4km to school with torn shoes and nothing for lunch, you expect them to invent what?

Innovation requires:
- Time to think
- Safe spaces to test and fail
- Encouragement to explore

If you can't afford your child a quite space at home, your child might grow up not knowing what they are capable of doing.

4. This Is Why Africa Isn’t Inventing at Scale

Yes, we’re hardworking. Yes, we’re spiritual. Yes, we have “potential.”

But potential without platforms is like seeds on concrete. Nothing grows.

And then we wonder why we’re importing fuel, phones, cars, tractors, vaccines, software, and even chicken pieces?

Because the kids who could invent all that are busy hustling for school fees and surviving under adults who tell them, 'you don't eat books, grow up'.

Here is what I suggest?

1. Expose Early
Get your child to familiarize yourself with a computer, see a lab, visit a factory, and attend an expo before age 10. I am taking my son to China for that.

2. Fund Curiosity
Not just education. Curiosity. Buy them a screwdriver set. Get them a science toy. Let them ruin the TV remote if it helps them figure out how circuits work. Ask them to find out how things work.

3. Celebrate problem solving.
Don’t just celebrate the child who passes exams. Celebrate the one who fixes things, builds things, questions things.

4. Normalize Invention in Black Spaces
Tech is not just for “wyts” or the diaspora. Inventing is not foreign. Our ancestors were engineers. We built kingdoms. Look at the Great Zimbabwe and the pyramids. We must now build futures.

In conclusion, until African parents start raising inventors, our children will keep buying what other people’s children built with the very money we sweat for.

Copied from chrophetmuchinezuro

27/12/2024

𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙩:
1. Nokia refused Android
2. Yahoo rejected Google
3. Kodak refused Digital Cameras

𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨:
1. Take chances
2. Embrace the Change
3. If you refuse to change with time, you'll become outdated
𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨:

1. Facebook takes over whatsapp and instagram
2. Grab takes over Uber in Southeast Asia
Lessons:
1. Become so powerful that your competitors become your allies
2. Reach the top and eliminate the competition.
3. Keep on innovating
𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨:

1. Colonel Sanders founded KFC at 65
2. Jack Ma, who couldn't get a job at KFC, founded Alibaba and retired at the age of 55.
𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨:

1. Age is merely a number
2. Only those who keep trying will succeed
𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩:
Lamborghini was founded as a result of revenge from a tractor manufacturer who was insulted by Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari.
𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨:

Never underestimate anyone, Ever!
✅Just keep working hard
✅Invest your time wisely
✅Don't be afraid to fail

07/12/2024

15/09/2024

WHY IS KASUMBALESA THE LARGEST MARKET IN CENTRAL AFRICA?.

1. TRANSACTIONS: Every day more than a billion US dollars ($1 billion) cross the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, compared to other markets such as South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, etc., the Kasumbalesa market remains the essential marketplace in Central Africa for banking transactions and cash.

2. WHERE DOES THIS TURNOVER OF MORE THAN $1 BILLION COME FROM?.

* AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, GROCERIES, ELECTRONICS, AND OTHERS

More than 4,000 goats are sold in Kasumbalesa every day.

More than 3,000 pigs are sold in Kasumbalesa every day.

More than 500,000 trays of eggs sold in Kasumbalesa every day.

More than 150,000 bags of mealie meal sold in kasumbalesa every day.

More than 10,000 boxes of fresh fish sold in kasumbalesa.

More than $5 million in the purchase of products such as (drinks, biscuits, spices, flour, rice etc.).

More than 50,000 chickens sold every Tuesday and Friday in kasumbalesa.

More than 5,000 boxes (100kg) of dry fish sold every day in kasumbalesa.

More than 10,000 bags (50kg) of dry products sold every day in kasumbalesa such as (beans, groundnut, soybeans, etc.)

More than $500,000 in the purchase of green products such as (cabbages, onion, chili, Okra, oranges, apple, lemon, watermelon, garlic, etc.).

Every day more than 1,000 trucks cross the border to DR Congo, and return to Zambia with minerals every day.

More than 200 restaurants, more than 20 guest houses, more than 500 mobile money working in Kasumbalesa every day.

More than 100,000kg (100 tons) of fresh meat sold by butchers in Kasumbalesa every day.

Every day more than $100,000 dollars is invested in electronics such as (phones, televisions, freezers, and other furniture).

There are other activities that are not mentioned in this article such as transport, small traders (resellers), clothing trade, money changers, unloaders, sales agents, not to mention the terraces, nightclubs, more than 500 prostitutes who work every night in Kasumbalesa coming from different countries of Central Africa.

IN BRIEF: When we talk about kasumbalesa, we see all the economic operators coming from all over the world (China, India, America, England, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Congo, Angola, all for a common goal to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the kasumbalesa market, and every day everyone always returns with something in their pocket, and every day there are those who return happy, and those who return unhappy, with the hope of doing better tomorrow, the biggest secret of kasumbalesa remains (TIMING, CONNECTIONS, AND QUALITY).

Mr Ng'andu

Analysis done on the ground since 2012, until today 2024 by Mr Ng'andu

This information is reliable, and verifiable.

For consultation, transportation, customs clearance, agents in kasumbalesa, business in Congo side contact us.

Contact Mr N'gandu's team.

Madam Mary +260967363711
Mr Terrence +260969528780.

CREDIT: Kasumbalesa Zambia/DR Congo Business

16/07/2024

Dave Thomas is another success story of a millionaire school dropout. He was the founder of Wendy's food franchise. He started his business in 1969 after working at KFC.
He dropped out of school at the age of 15 but he went back to school after 45 years to complete his high school education and obtained a certificate in 1993 at age 60.
Its never too late to obtain an education.

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