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How To DEAL With Your Haters & KEEP SUCCEEDING In spite Of Them!
This is a verbatim audio-to-text transcript of an audio recording I made with my 11-year-old son (T-Boy) at about 4.20a.m today Sunday 12th October 2025. Listen to the full recording on my YouTube channel. Click HERE (Opens in a new browser window)
![[PDF] Our Societies Are Badly in Need of REAL MEN as Role Models…and Leaders – NOT Weaklings in Mens Pants (aka WIMPs)](https://discovercotonou.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/rolemodels.jpg)
[PDF] Our Societies Are Badly in Need of REAL MEN as Role Models…and Leaders – NOT Weaklings in Mens Pants (aka WIMPs)
I’ll be 51 on 6th July 2021. However, I know that my best years are still far ahead of me. Today, I’m doing the work I LOVE with increasing success, financially and otherwise, despite adversity i.e. even in the face of harsh economic conditions. Download the full PDF and read offline – click here.
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[PDF] He Called Me “Voleur” (Thief)! | The Big Mistake Some Africans Make In Thinking About Nigerians
Note to reader: This article was first published online from my base in Benin Republic’s Cotonou, on Oct 12, 2013 @ 13:29 i.e. 6 months after I relocated (on 1st April) to the Francophone capital from Nigeria’s Lagos. I’d survived a period of extreme adversity in which for several days in my first two weeks […]
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Quick & Dirty Guide To FRENCH & YORUBA Part 1 – GREETING [Asking About Members of the Family]
Produced by http://www.tksola.com for Temi and Oluomachukwu SOLAGBADE This is a series for my Best Practice Parenting and Schooling (BPPS) Mini-Magazine based on what I’m doing for my kids. The original concept was developed within the first month of my relocating to Cotonou in April 2013. Back then I created my maiden Quick & Dirty […]
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[PDF & VIDEO] How to Achieve Success in Any Field – True Story
This true story demonstrates how FAITH, persistently applied, can help you succeed in any field – including Writing, and Public Speaking. I share it not to brag, but to (hopefully) inspire others to do what I’ve done, or even better. “Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith – the one great moving force which […]
![TRUE STORY: How I Went from Struggling to Feed & Sleeping on Streets in Benin Republic to (a) winning a Nigerian diplomat as client who gave me a room, and a driver to take me to his Farm in Nigeria and (b) getting paid 2,500 Euros by a European Union Funded NGO based in Holland [HINT: The Power of Blind Faith & Refusal to Recognize Failure]](https://discovercotonou.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ajayi-tundra-photo.png)
TRUE STORY: How I Went from Struggling to Feed & Sleeping on Streets in Benin Republic to (a) winning a Nigerian diplomat as client who gave me a room, and a driver to take me to his Farm in Nigeria and (b) getting paid 2,500 Euros by a European Union Funded NGO based in Holland [HINT: The Power of Blind Faith & Refusal to Recognize Failure]
From sleeping on the streets of Cotonou and Porto-Novo in Benin Republic for about 2 of my first 4 weeks in Cotonou (after relocating on 1st April 2013), I went on several months later to: A. Win a diplomat in the Nigerian Embassy as a client who: 1. Engaged me to build a website for […]
![[True Story] You Need to be Unreasonable to Achieve Authentic Success](https://discovercotonou.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/dc-be-unreasonable.jpg)
[True Story] You Need to be Unreasonable to Achieve Authentic Success
The point made by Robert Kiyosaki in the above screenshot of his Facebook post is valid – and underscored with emphasis by: (a) my personal experiences, some of which I’ve described in the true story narrated below AND (b) the powerful quote I have appended to the bottom of this piece. During my Startup years […]
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Support Skills Based Education of Locals [Repatriating to Africa: A 3 Pronged Strategy..] Pt 2 of 6
This video (scroll down to watch it) begins with a short clip excerpt from a VLog by Ghanaian YouTuber Ekow Simpson challenging anyone coming from the Diaspora NOT to come “job hunting”, but instead to start a business of their own and possibly provide jobs to locals. He also explains why he actively promotes EARLY […]
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Top 9 Strategies You Need to Travel Successfully in Africa – With Minimal STRESS & Maximum FUN! [VIDEO + PDF TRANSCRIPT]
Everything I’m sharing with you in this video, is actually based on personal experience. I didn’t go on the Internet and Google anything. I basically sat down and just thought about what I’d done, and that’s the way 99% of all the content that I’ve churned out over the last 15 years have been. I’ve […]