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0:00 - Introduction
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earlier this year when I took a trip to
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Acra Ghana wo Game Changer of a trip for
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you yes indeed my life hasn't been the
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same Chance the Rapper sent me over
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there and he was doing a big concert and
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a free concert for 52,000 people who
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were in Ghana people came from all over
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the world Tracy to have this experience
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one of the people I met was a phenomenal
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individual that I had no idea who he was
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but when we met it felt like we met
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before you know and for some reason this
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dude took it upon himself
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to make sure that our trip was golden uh
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it was a phenomenal trip he was somebody
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I could call on at any time of the day I
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did not understand who he was but I just
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understood that he had a purpose there
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that helped me have one of the greatest
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trips I ever taken um outside of the
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United States uh this man is someone who
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worked in banking he worked in real
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estate and after the um the market crash
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I want to say the recession hit back in
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0708
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I often speak about how many properties
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I lost during that recession and how how
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it reshaped my mind when it came to
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banking when it came to finances um the
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recession actually became something that
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was advantageous to me because of what I
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learned and and how I was able to
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benefit from what I learned this man
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decided to uh take it upon himself and
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become a web three entrepreneur he's
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been on this Crusade since um explaining
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and expressing and teaching people about
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web3 tech technology and how it's
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changing and how it's evolving and how
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it will impact our everyday lives I want
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to welcome him to the Show Ladies and
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Gentlemen please give a round of
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applause for my friend and Confidant
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Dell Titus B here hey hey hey hey hey
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hey hey welcome D did I say the name
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right d did I say the name right you got
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it
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right good bab put the juice on it okay
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jump up on that mic here man yeah the
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whole world got to hear you d got you
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good good Dell uh dell is a really
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unique individual uh folks if you're
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into technology if you're into AI if
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you're in the culture and the uh in the
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Synergy between Ai and culture and how
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this is working towards us as creatives
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this is a man Ni Call web3 technology
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we've had a few Folks up here to talk
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about it including Styles P and Baron
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Davis and it's a conversation we want to
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continue to have so folks can understand
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it before we do that Dale tell us your
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back ground where were you born so I was
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born in London Northwest London to be
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specific mhm um now that's the home of
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who Giggs or who who's yeah you know
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gigs listen gigs is my guy he's from the
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South but we love him in North okay you
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still love him in the north we still
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love him in the north okay that that's
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my guy so he's he's welcome in any way
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okay yeah um so yeah I was born I was
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born in London Northwest London mainly
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grew up in London and um my parents
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right they're immigrants Ghan immigrants
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that moved moved into London so I was
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kind of my early um childhood years I
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was in between London and Ghana okay um
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and and and and that's that's kind of
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like what formulated what what you
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experienced when you came to Ghana mhm
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now your your your family is um very
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prestigious people your your your want
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to say your grandfather Dr Baur a b
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you're getting it
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today your godam brother right there he
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better show off come on man
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brother doing it today come on he's a
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former ambassador to the United States
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correct okay tell us about your family's
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history with u politics um yeah so if
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you can yeah what you can sh no no we we
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we we don't have any um you know hidden
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hidden skeletons anywhere but um my
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grandfather served as an ambassador for
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the from Ghana to United States um
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previous to that he was Ambassador from
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Ghana to Japan mhm and he he's done
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stand out for two separate Presidents um
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and and always mainly being in
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government um but but funny enough his
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role was really pivotal to what happened
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with beyond the return which encouraged
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African-Americans to to visit um Ghana
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and you know we have other parts of the
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family who are more ministerial right
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and some of the roles that they do um
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I've chosen to go down the tech path um
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but I am very supportive of what they're
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doing because without their voices you
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know I wouldn't have some of the
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opportunities I've had but my
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grandfather being instrumental with
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launching beyond the return in
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2018 at the national Press Club um in
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Washington with the president to
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encourage people of Africa descent to
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come home but very important shout out
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is to the mayor of Virginia because the
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the initiative came from them their
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office in Virginia in Virginia right
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because of the last um slave ship that
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docked in Virginia uhhuh
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marking 400 years in 2018 I believe
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don't quote me but 2018 and then that
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landed on my grandfather's desk and then
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he got in touch with the GH tourism
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Authority the president and then they
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came and gave it like all the energy it
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needed is your grandfather the reason
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why if you have uh of descent you could
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go over to Ghana is he part of the
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reason in in actually become a citizen
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get dual citizenship well look he's
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contributed to it you know there's a lot
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of people that's made that possible
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obviously the president being the the
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figurehead and spearheading that he's
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played his role um during his tener as a
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Ambassador and then obviously you know I
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can't forget the Ghana tourism Authority
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um aesi Annabelle there have done some
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amazing work and a very good friend of
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mine by the name of denta these people
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have done some amazing work so I don't
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want him to take all the credit but he's
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he's a part of it so I could go get my
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dual citizenship in Ghana for free yeah
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I mean yeah I mean listen right now we
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have a very unique time and that is that
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in our generation African-Americans can
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now visit Africa they can invest in
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Africa they can make it a second
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destination a place to visit um and it's
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no longer this you know during the time
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my for example my grandfather
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studied briefly with my Angelou okay my
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Angelou yeah myangelo and that during
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that period you had Malcolm X you had
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Muhammad Ali um all these people were
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visiting but the access and the
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knowledge had then is very different to
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what we have now right so they couldn't
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really continue that in the way that
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they would have wanted to whereas in
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this situation so we could just get on a
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plane she can just get on the plane and
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just and just come and say yo D there's
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afrochella happening there's afronation
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happening there's this happening can I
6:45
come just come up something okay but but
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but here's the irony in
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that and you tell me if I'm incorrect I
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can pull up and come to Ghana easily but
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can anybody in any other African country
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cross you know uh country lines and
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travel freely through Africa okay so
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that's a really really um good good good
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question so recently um I don't know if
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you noticed Rwanda yes and um Ghana as
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well have recently made it um you know
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to it's you don't need a visa basically
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to travel to these countries and prior
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to that to your point it's been very
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difficult to travel between different a
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countries as an African which just
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didn't make any sense so I think the
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presidents are doing a really good job
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kagami our president and the South
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African president I believe also
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the Kenyan president as well a lot of
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them are starting to like you know push
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this agenda to make it easier for
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Africans to travel between their
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countries but more
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importantly the trade element of this is
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going to be really powerful you know
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what I mean and so there's a lot more to
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it than just you know the the Visa
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access that's the first step M yeah yeah
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so we were talk we tapped into the trade
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element Commerce trade and commerce
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element of that um and how that's
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starting to change we starting to see a
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lot of African countries revolt against
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colonial rule and and we starting to
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witness that as well amen speak to the
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the trade agreements how this is being
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impacted now where where how's this
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being evolved now in Africa I mean I
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I'll start with Ghana so you know
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between Ghana and the afos they are the
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top producers of coc right and so so so
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you look at Coco and you look at it's
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you know it's the main resource for what
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we have on this side of the world is
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chocolate right and other countries have
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um benefited of that commercially and so
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you know you're producing you're the top
8:47
two producers you are achieve you know
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you're hardly gaining anything from the
8:52
commercial value right and so the
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Dynamics of that was changed by our
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president teaming up with the um IV
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Coast president to ensure that you know
9:02
Coco and the products that are
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associated with Coco will be produced
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locally right and so they change they
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completely changed the trade agreements
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there um aftera which has also been put
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in place um is something that's making
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it very very um should I say uh
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efficient to trade on the continent as
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well which is spearheaded by the African
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Union previously Ghana was the chair and
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I believe um we now have a new chair but
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nonetheless you know those trade
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agreements are influencing the resources
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how the resources go out of the
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continent um the companies that need to
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come into the continent and produce
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obviously that's creating more jobs um
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there's creating more African designed
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um or manufactured products right to be
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exported and then with this new um
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incentive of making it easy for Africans
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to travel within the continent you know
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the Dynamics of our our GDP is going to
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change for the better okay and let's
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talk about the Dynamics of the Commerce
10:05
or GDP in the Congo for a little bit all
10:08
right and we were talking about this the
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other day I'm just C you know we're
10:12
trying to yeah we're trying to learn
10:14
here brother you know we're just trying
10:16
to learn I mean high high energy this
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morning you know we just having a
10:20
conversation you know we talked about
10:23
lithium and and its importance in the
10:25
world and even these phones we have
10:27
right here these cameras everything
10:29
evolves um the fact that all of this
10:32
resources being extracted from this
10:34
region and this region isn't benefiting
10:36
from the profits that are being made at
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all people are dying um people ignoring
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it it's you know it's genocide over
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there it's all sorts of problematic
10:45
issues handled happening in the Congo
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right now uh and we look at that and and
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I'm curious to what are the surrounding
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countries in that area Nigeria included
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um what what are what is being done by
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African countries to kind of bring
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attention to that to you know you know
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make this scenario fair for the people
11:08
in the Congo are folks fighting or they
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protesting or what do you see happening
11:14
I mean if I'm to be honest I'll be blunt
11:16
I don't think enough is being done okay
11:18
that's you know I'm not going to say
11:19
what everyone wants to hear okay enough
11:21
isn't being done um some some leaders
11:24
are doing some you know uh you know
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they're making some moves but the the
11:30
thing that we need to understand is that
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if Africa is going to be in a situation
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where we are controlling our sovereignty
11:38
more we have to be prepared to make the
11:42
sacrifices um that we need to that may I
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say um includes you know we may lose
11:50
people yeah right revolutions cost blunt
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you know these are these are hard
11:54
realities right and you have to look at
11:57
other um countries or other regions what
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they've had to go through to gain their
12:02
sovereignty and we can no longer be in
12:04
this situation where we see the congales
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being persecuted and we just turn a
12:09
blind ey or we're passive about it right
12:12
that isn't a shot at any country per se
12:14
but what I'm saying is that if you want
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to really claim sovereignty in our
12:17
continent we're going to have to
12:18
challenge these big corporations
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publicly right locally and prevent them
12:24
from capitalizing we know what they're
12:26
doing we know what what the motiv are we
12:29
know that some Rogue um African
12:32
ministers are being paid right and we
12:35
know what they're looking at but there's
12:36
no way you can lead a continent look at
12:39
the people go through the they're your
12:41
people yeah they are not the other
12:43
people's people they're your people
12:44
they're your people you have to fight
12:46
for them neighbors have to fight and the
12:49
the the people in Congo right have to be
12:51
supported cuz obviously if they had all
12:54
the ammunition they would be fighting
12:56
yeah right so they don't have all the
12:58
ammunition right and the corruption and
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the bureaucracy there is happening at a
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scale that makes it difficult because
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the amount of money that's being
13:06
generated billions and billions of
13:09
resources worth of resources being taken
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out of that region and nothing's being
13:14
put back
13:15
in right and and I and I will say you
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know the plague of most African leaders
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is you know money um and you know a man
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that can be bought right can be
13:27
controlled um and so that what what you
13:31
see happening on the continent most of
13:33
the time is really related to the fact
13:35
that you know poverty will make you do
13:36
some desperate stuff absolutely and it's
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not that we are poor in resource
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sometimes we're just poor in intellect
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and wisdom right oh she man my Man Dell
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is here uh dell Titus B is here we're
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talking web3 technology we're talking
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Africa you have any questions you want
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to chime in 888 742 3345 Tracy G yes sir
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D I know that sway just threw you into
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the deep end really with the sharks
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listen your swim game is
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impeccable for those who are getting to
14:10
know you for the first time you know you
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spoke about your family and how they've
14:13
had such a global impact um and I'm sure
14:17
that has influenced this
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entrepreneurship Journey that you've
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been on can you speak a bit more about
14:24
what your current um career role is and
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how you got started in it cuz all of
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this is very fascinating and I don't
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want you to be the only Dell okay well
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that's good really really powerful
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statement so um my focus is web 3 at the
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moment um a significant part in me
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getting into web 3 well two two two
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significant um areas in my life that
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Drew me to web 3 was obviously post the
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recession um you know I was working in
14:52
an alternative investment firm Boutique
14:55
alternative investment firm and Bitcoin
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landed on my desk and and I was
15:00
basically and this is as early as 2013
15:02
2014 gotcha right so I was with a very
15:05
very good colleague of mine sharp um you
15:08
know programmer and we figured out that
15:11
you could mine these things what it is
15:13
and when I say mining mining is the
15:15
process of basically using um computers
15:19
and servers right to generate complex
15:23
calculations to get a Bitcoin those are
15:26
new shovels right those are the new
15:27
shovels correct and so we started mining
15:30
them right and we went from 1 to 2 to 5
15:34
to 10 to 20 right and just kept on
15:37
growing admittedly at the time that was
15:39
worth probably a million dollars worth
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and then the exchange right um got
15:45
hacked for 16.5 billion and so we lost a
15:49
Million Dollar close to a million do but
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the thing is we never went in knowing
15:53
that was going to happen we went in
15:54
because we thought the economic
15:56
structure of Bitcoin and
15:57
decentralization was the way forward yes
16:00
right and so that fast forward led me to
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2018 when my dad passed away and I had
16:05
to spend a bit more time in Ghana and I
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basically looked at the landscape of
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Africa and realized that we were heavily
16:12
underperforming right uh uh GDP was
16:16
stagnant and you look at China China has
16:18
generated close to $16 trillion in 20
16:21
years mhm and you could say a good
16:24
percentage of that has come from Africa
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so the question I asked myself is
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what do we need to do or what industries
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do we need to be a part of in the future
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that's going to accelerate our GDP and
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that for me was Tech Contex Bitcoin in
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the last under 10 years has generated a
16:40
trillion dollars just as a
16:41
cryptocurrency under 10 years under 10
16:43
years right it and and the times are
16:45
different but it took whether it's apple
16:48
or Microsoft north of 20 years and so if
16:50
you're a continent it's not about
16:52
cryptocurrencies it's about what
16:54
industry should you be focusing on
16:56
because through web 3 you have ai you
16:58
have blockchain you have crypto you have
16:59
nfts you have gaming gaming you got all
17:02
that you have all of that so I went into
17:04
it starting a company post 2018 which
17:08
was focused on education policy and
17:10
community building with the views of
17:11
legitimizing the industry locally and
17:14
thus far we have formed Partnerships
17:16
with the central bank we have worked
17:18
with Global Citizens um we have hosted
17:22
the the best part of crypto um with
17:24
vitalic butterin this year um we you
17:28
I've teamed up with um my guys are
17:30
afropolitan who are building the first
17:32
digital um country um country yeah
17:36
they're building a digital country
17:37
what's a digital country so basically
17:40
it's um citizens that exist mainly
17:44
online right in a digital space in a
17:46
digital space right and it's about
17:50
basically claiming territories without
17:53
well you you claim the digital you claim
17:55
the digital territory while also
17:56
advancing the land and physical
17:58
territory but you're able to build
18:02
policies that we're talking about right
18:05
online which can then be integrated into
18:09
you know policies offline exactly real
18:11
real life institutions and so what we're
18:14
doing is I'm thinking of me and sway
18:16
right now in the context sway could not
18:18
necessarily come to Ghana and get a dual
18:21
nationality if it becomes an afropolitan
18:23
citizen right then we have the kind of
18:26
state or you call it Network state that
18:29
allows us to be far-reaching across the
18:32
globe and be able to have policies and
18:36
Manifesto that allows us to come
18:37
together and not necessarily be in one
18:40
location multiple locations right so you
18:43
know good context or some analogy to
18:46
this is Facebook or meta if you want to
18:48
call it that Zuckerberg can mobilize two
18:51
billion people quicker than any
18:53
president in this world MH right so in
18:55
that in that in that afro politician
18:58
afropolitan afropolitan afropolitan
19:01
instead of Metropolitan afropolitan
19:03
exactly
19:04
afropolitan yeah yeah so I S I sit on
19:07
the board of that organization and they
19:09
are you know we are slowly um expanding
19:13
um across the region in the diaspora and
19:15
what's the name of your company though
19:16
web3 Acra w3a mhm web 3 Acra web 3 AC
19:21
Acra Acra like the um the city the city
19:24
of Acra Ghana Ghana exactly where I'm a
19:26
citizen sneeze on the line
19:30
God bless you yep yep y God bless you
19:33
good morning asalam alikum to all of
19:35
y'all peace be with you brother you got
19:37
a question for D my brother yes I do Mr
19:41
how do you pronounce your name Dell D
19:43
Titus Dell
19:44
Titus Del Titus Mr Del Titus how are you
19:47
I'm good brother how are you that's good
19:50
to hear I'm blessed I'm up this morning
19:52
uh to get to the question Mr D Mr Mr
19:55
Titus uh as far as Ghana CI C ship
20:00
right how does one go about
20:04
that coming from New
20:06
York and how fast does the citizen
20:09
Citizenship take that's one question
20:12
okay okay all right all right the second
20:15
question is with this technology going
20:18
on is Ghana investing in as far as
20:21
broadcasting because we have this
20:22
problem in Hip Hop um we just had a
20:24
little situation with the brother D1
20:26
music and what I noticed in our region
20:30
as far as African-Americans with this
20:32
music and entertainment business is that
20:34
we don't own any antennas we don't own
20:37
any satellites in the sky or on the
20:38
ground for broadcasting we have no real
20:42
uh strong real estate in the
20:44
entertainment world like we're still
20:46
customers and content providers but
20:49
we're not really owners like sirusxm but
20:52
everybody that's sitting in sirm you're
20:54
getting a check but somebody owns that
20:56
platform for you to broadcast
20:59
that's why I got that's why I got
21:03
stock I hear what you saying but but the
21:07
ownership you know what I mean I know
21:09
what you mean I'm just being
21:12
funny SE I I get what you're saying go
21:14
ahead um what's your question what's
21:16
your you got so you want me to go for
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the first question yes please sir yeah
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so the first question you know I'm I'm
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coming in um as a in my capacity as a
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citizen
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is it is more straightforward now than
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it's ever been I think the first thing I
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would say is you got to visit the
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country that's the first thing and there
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is a process you visit the country and
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most people tend to apply for what you
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call a um resident or working
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permit but through the um office of
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diaspora Affairs and Beyond the return
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there is a process or category that
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encourages diasporans to come um to the
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country
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now with with that being said you know
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the process has been evolving since 2018
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to this point and I would definitely say
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you know it may have taken the best part
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of close to a year before but I think
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that's cut down
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significantly um and I believe maybe two
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years ago the president announced the
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first batch of people that got their
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dual their citizenship yeah to be on the
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ground so I would say first step is get
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on the ground second step is you know
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you could apply for working or residence
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permit and we also we also encourage
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people to come on the ground and invest
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right because it's not just about coming
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to get a passport right we want you to
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become citizens or partial citizens of
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the country and so that's why it's
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important to come and immerse yourself
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and understand exactly why you're
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becoming a citizen of Ghana because we
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want to welcome people but we also want
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people to integrate into the society and
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build the society right um and so that's
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the first stage um this the second
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question is ownership yep Africa has
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definitely been struggling with
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ownership we have all the resources and
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I always mentioned I've said this to and
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all my friends and is that we are
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resource Rich we tend to be cash poor
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yeah and over here you are cash rich but
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as black people's citizens you're
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resource poor yeah right and so the
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objective is where we we are in Ghana
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today with my agenda in web 3 is
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basically to ensure that we build the
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infrastructure so that in the next 10
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years we have more entrepreneurs that
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basically control and are building in
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the space opposed to it being dictated
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To Us by other companies who have the
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infrastructure outside of the continent
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like meta like YouTube like all of these
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different places all right hey sne
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that's an awesome question thank you
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brother you a super
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citizen Titus B thank you my brother
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thank you thank for coming through man
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you want to hang out a little bit we got
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my son the generals up next man always
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let's do it man okay anybody want to
24:08
continue this conversation with Dell how
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can they reach you um you can reach me
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on Instagram DTI t b a Wu a or you can
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just simply follow web3 arra which is
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wb3 ACC R A all right man appreciate you
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