![[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)
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.
![[PDF] He Called Me “Voleur” (Thief)! | The Big Mistake Some Africans Make In Thinking About Nigerians](https://discovercotonou.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/He-called-me-voleur-COVER-3dOK.jpg)
[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 […]
![[PDF & VIDEO] How to Achieve Success in Any Field – True Story](https://discovercotonou.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/3d-htsucceed.jpg)
[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 […]
![Support Skills Based Education of Locals [Repatriating to Africa: A 3 Pronged Strategy..] Pt 2 of 6](https://discovercotonou.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/memnin.png)
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 […]
![Top 9 Strategies You Need to Travel Successfully in Africa – With Minimal STRESS & Maximum FUN! [VIDEO + PDF TRANSCRIPT]](https://discovercotonou.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/3d-Book-CoverOK.jpg)
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 […]
![Schools Kill Creativity: How Western Education Keeps Africa Poor [Excerpt from Part 4 of 6 of “Repatriating to Africa: A 3 Pronged Strategy You Can Use to Succeed]” – 6 Part Video Series](https://discovercotonou.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/upload-dc-blo-feature-pharo.png)
Schools Kill Creativity: How Western Education Keeps Africa Poor [Excerpt from Part 4 of 6 of “Repatriating to Africa: A 3 Pronged Strategy You Can Use to Succeed]” – 6 Part Video Series
The video you’re about to watch clearly identifies the root cause of the POVERTY afflicting Africa today. Especially our habit of looking to other races for solutions e.g loans, cures/vaccines, ideas etc. Watch the video and you’ll see what I mean. But let me just give you some background perspective against which to reflect on […]