didn’t pray I’m currently in charge of
the northern sector to betray news but
it called the bureau chief about until
January 2016 I worked with a lover firm
as an assistant news editor well I’m
here to share with you why we need to
challenge the stock to school and bowels
of course you’ll still be winning and
just to share with you someone once
asked me okay so now you’re moving on
the next step is to go to the BBC and I
just said I don’t to leave us Elias is
yes unfortunately that’s not such a
great journalist of our times
[Music]
one thing that I want to share with you
how to do with what I experienced while
I was at love affair I think in 15 years
that I work with them I only had about
five minutes of respect for arias
available to me and I was to do business
news and I asked myself what – five
minutes due to my community so spiteful
idea I had
enter the environments with the mindset
of mean human rights reporting what I
was my background that’s my interest my
passion but I find myself in a situation
where I needed to impact on the business
community then we’re picking things
probably very firm and the challenge was
how do we reach out to people like you
well very brilliant ideas but I don’t
know how to sell those ideas how to get
a platform to sell those ideas and I
offer that opportunity it was
challenging and this is the course of
words I want to share with you this
this is one of the best views in Ghana
and some 20 years ago I left this school
of course is the basics I left like most
other students here in Ghana with the
mindset of acquiring some knowledge but
I don’t know where I left with the
knowledge but the motor of this who is
something that has always been with me
knowledge is power and that’s what is
really taking me to whichever level but
I find myself currently
something with you similar to the
thoughts by Kamala in Nigeria by this
time around he has to do with Ghanians
moving to Nigeria this is one of the
biggest slums in Africa is for Makapuu
and I tell you this is where I lived
when I go to Nigeria after my second
education my father was there and I
needed to join him there and this is
where people from Ghana that we thought
we’re looking for greener pastures
whenever I ask myself it is the
environment that I want to live in five
years later I returned to Ghana and I
this is somewhere in before the police
that assault rates in Kenya he said
there this the home of them aside
Tipu of the Masai and our vehicle just
trilling this one and I took that short
and I missed 13 people there these are
some of the Masai people that I met and
the greatest thing I learnt about them
is the fact that they are very
accommodating and anybody they meets
they want to impact
I met this lady there Samantha there was
a drought situation that’s what took me
actually I was there doing a report on
climate change and all that and I met
Samantha she had traveled all the way
from the UK to study the drought
situation with the intention of
impacting on such such a community and
that was the beginning of my thoughts I
asked myself what do I was would be
between part of my society and how do I
do it we’ve all been used to the fact of
the thing that we need to think globally
but locally but I said no this is an
environment that we find ourselves and
there are so many other opportunities
that we have that we don’t need to
necessarily have locally so I ask myself
that what do I do as a journalist to
globally so the village where you live
is probably the only space in the global
sphere and when I pick my pain my
microphone or my my recorder
I want to engage the average person
anywhere in the world
and that is what journalism is about Wow
as I speak to anybody in Ghana the
question is how does it impact on the
global community
and I am sharing this life for a purpose
I think all of us are used to social
media and when I started thinking about
how do I act globally
of course I’m today about love affair
and after you have our TV three
but I’m only living in massive and they
see even today as I arrived here
somebody asked me I would have moved my
say that means I use the income I see
I said yes I have nowhere to go in fact
my office is in Derby and we are here at
TEDx every this is linked in I’m
hitching fifty thousand flow is lateness
couple of it is something I did within a
week I’m supposed to hit fifty thousand
full of ways within this week and I’m
sure affair purpose on Facebook I can
only go up to five thousand if I’m using
mine on my Facebook page currently
unlike me writing as I used to but
anything I share on Facebook on LinkedIn
it’s read by millions outside of Ghana
these are the people who follow now
imagine the leverage I’m writing here in
Ghana in Kumasi in a deal about things
affecting my community my business
people people who are doing amazing
things some of which you said today and
these are the people I’m reaching out
if I can be able to do this this has to
do professionalism I think I can only be
content when I’m a competent to compete
to make an impact and that is what I
strive to do if I’m engaging anybody
whether I be the kid rather being a food
food seller anybody at all that I want
to speak to in my professional work I
need to be professional and
professionalism Goosen competence
I think I’ll something that we always
take for granted what do I do
so that if I’m going to win I will stand
and to be successful I think the
environment we live in has to do with
creativity what do I do to stand out
from the rest
I choose to be successful that is me
because of the fact that nobody else can
do what I think that is my belief you
may be whoever in the whole world but I
believe that what I do I’m special and
I’m unique in my own way and that is
what I strive to do I did this in Lima
Peru and I’m sorry for your papers when
I step out of Ghana my journalism is
something that I can do or compete with
any other word winner from BBC from the
scene in from anywhere in the world and
that is where we talk about success I
think the challenge we have is that when
we talk about successes maybe about a
car you drive the house how good you
dress I mean how good you smell but I
believe it has to do with an inner
conviction that’s yes I do this I’m
satisfied and for me my success is when
I put a smile on somebody’s face through
the work I do and I believe if we are to
be successful by challenging the status
quo the tenets of professionalism of
competence are some of the things that
we need to imbibe and there is no
holding back the fact that success is an
inner satisfaction and I believe be it
in Kumasi Chameli anywhere you find
yourself as an individual you can’t
choose to be successful and be the best that you can be thank you very much