but recently I’ve had to question am i a
Zambian there’s been a massive increase
in racism towards non-black Zambians
there’s been a massive increase in
tribalism it’s become more of an issue
of what is it that makes you a Zambia
and people are fragmenting so in
questioning who we are these slides are
try and show the many various forms of
Zambians victorious Statesman and are we
drunkards are we lazy are we rich
are we poor what are we and what makes
us so I look back I went back and looked
at the founding of Zambia and started
asking myself what is it we got a
country born with lesson 100 graduates
and they built everything they built
Airlines they built Torino tip-top and
quench we had bus networks we built
roads we freed the region and we enjoyed
ourselves doing there was a great deal
of pride there was a great deal of
belief in what we were doing and where
did that go and why did it go so one of
the biggest issues and example I often
use is this issue of our supermarket
chains we had Mycenae stores and their
CBC massive chains across the whole
country and we’ve despite Trevor Noah’s
statement about Zambians not having
escalators and actually we did have
escalators we had escalators way back in
the 70s and what happened to that why
did that disappear why did we lose our
way in that why do we lose that ambition
for them
nothing was impossible what really I was
trying to say is that I grew up in a
Zambia where there was all this belief
and I’m now in a Sambia where we’re
struggling to believe the video was
trying to show an era where we had
extreme ambition I hope they can get it
out but it’s our reaction to ambition
it’s our reaction to planning when I was
a small boy two years ago I arrived home
from school
and my grandfather was sitting in the
lawn reading always smiling and I’d ask
him what are you so happy about who is
sitting here content weeding along and
he said he had made a big decision many
years ago he had decided not to take on
the chieftainship and become chief
single Ummah third and he left capella
village in the eastern province of
Zambia and started walking down towards
South African mines he said the white
man has arrived and the whole world is
going to change I’m sitting here and
I’ll be quite comfortable
obviousiy ‘f it would be no issue for
him his life would have been perfectly
fine but he said I didn’t know where my
grandchildren would be in this new world
I didn’t know if they’ll be able to
acclimatize him whether I’d be able to
adapt to this new world so I had to make
the sacrifice so he made the sacrifice
he walked with two people ended up in
quick rains in Bob way and worked in a
coal mine from being a chief so I he his
feeling was I’m happy I made the right
decision
here you are you’re in this new world
and that risk I took all those years ago
for my grandchildren has paid off and it
was that long-term thinking that as a
nine year old I decided was what I had
to do and it’s the only way we’re going
to become six
let’s ambience I often use the example
of theft a a increasingly popular
pastime in Zambia and if you have 500
kwacha or $500 of your employer’s of
someone’s lying on a table next to you
and you’re thinking about in a span of
one month the month is going to be that
money is gonna be half your salary your
whole salary double your salary
it’s a significant amount you’re
thinking for a year and you’re thinking
well that’s $500 against you know was
six thousand dollars or six thousand
kwacha it doesn’t become a significant
if it’s over ten years it becomes even
less significant you’re going to be
saying sixty thousand dollars over this
five hundred and you’ll look for
whoever’s it is and give it back it’s
not worth it and it this affects the way
we think and my view is that we’ve got
to start looking at that long term
perhaps not as ambitious as my
grandfather through generations but
certainly we’ve got a long look long
term my grandfather’s buried in the an
old council symmetry and I took I was I
wasn’t happy with the way he was and so
I started a project to look at how I
could take that move him into a little
private half acre or one acre private
Cemetery for my family I found 80 acres
and I had to take that 80 acres and say
well there are many pities not that many
but if I needed it someone else would
need it and so I tried to push the idea
and expand it we got in investors we’ve
got several million dollars in and we
launched lepers Hill Memorial Park it
wasn’t because my lifelong ambition was
to start a cemetery
was because there was a meet and there
was a need for Zambia there was a need
for me and I could take an idea which is
small and grow it it’s uh it’s a
long-term project my other project is
Western power company it’s a 500 million
dollar 150 megawatt power station we
start building in about a year and it’ll
take three I build it’ll become Zambia
third largest power station and it
started from a little colonial map which
some friend of the family gave us and
said get on with it
but again coming back to timeframe we
started that project in earnest in 2012
we’ll be completing will start
construction in 2018 we’ll have finished
in 2021 the current commercial operation
date and I’ll take another 10 years of
Congo law or debt repayment to 2031 my
thinking had been short term and for my
benefit then that’s not a project to do
and I think not that it’s about myself
not that it’s about design you know
we’ve got to really just change the way
we think we all have this ability
we have brilliant ideas we have
brilliant people we have around the
world we have we have an underlying
entrepreneurial we have an underlying
basis to succeed but there are few for
me missing ingredients and one of those
is the ambition my brother was recently
speaking at a startup function and
afterwards he was asking a lot of very
young entrepreneurs what is it that you
want to do with your business and
several of them told him you know I can
just get
my business so it can pay my rent and
maybe I can even buy a car that is not
what we need my video was to show the
ambition over 1962
Zambia is trying to reach space wacky
world of Zambian astronauts whose leader
in 1962 confidently predicted they’ll be
the first men on the moon is this the
site for your rocket launching program
and could you tell me where your rocket
is yes this is the rocket launching site
and my rocket is just here ground
control to Major Charles at what is the
name of your organization the donor of
my organization is a national kuduro
Science Space Research understand
love
when will you fire off your first rocket
and where will you send it to I will
fight from moussaka and they do figure
to most Zambians these people are just a
bunch of crackpots and from what I have
seen today I’m inclined to agree so I’ve
been watching this video for years on
well recently in this search for you
know how my hats ambien
I have I’ve looked at it again in the
game and actually my feelings have begun
to change that was 1962 it was before
man had reached the moon we have right
now an African starting space tourism
Elon Musk and we admire him we turn
around we invest this in his companies
it’s worth billions of dollars
we don’t think Elon ism is a crackpot
but we do of ourselves ironically I
don’t know another country where we have
a saying designed around our our lack of
respect or admiration for each other and
that’s phd in most countries that’s your
doctorate in zambia it means pull him
down or pull her down and if you hear
what the colonial commentator says they
said most ambiens think they’re
crackpots and I’m inclined to agree and
for me that is where we are zombies
until we start to believe that we aren’t
crackpot and we can’t have giant ideas
and we can go to space and whatever we
want to do we can do it we have to have
a long-term planning we have to have
diligence and maybe like our friends in
1962 they don’t make it but if we don’t
start trying and we don’t start
believing and we stop thinking of
ourselves as being unable to achieve we
won’t I believe we can
I believe we have the skin in there and
the reason that this is my final slide
that I do believe one day we will see
chi cheng in space and hopefully it’ll
be from someone in this room so my name
is Sifu Phillip my Sara Peary and I
believe and I am a sandy thank you very
much
[Applause] [Music]
Zambian there’s been a massive increase
in racism towards non-black Zambians
there’s been a massive increase in
tribalism it’s become more of an issue
of what is it that makes you a Zambia
and people are fragmenting so in
questioning who we are these slides are
try and show the many various forms of
Zambians victorious Statesman and are we
drunkards are we lazy are we rich
are we poor what are we and what makes
us so I look back I went back and looked
at the founding of Zambia and started
asking myself what is it we got a
country born with lesson 100 graduates
and they built everything they built
Airlines they built Torino tip-top and
quench we had bus networks we built
roads we freed the region and we enjoyed
ourselves doing there was a great deal
of pride there was a great deal of
belief in what we were doing and where
did that go and why did it go so one of
the biggest issues and example I often
use is this issue of our supermarket
chains we had Mycenae stores and their
CBC massive chains across the whole
country and we’ve despite Trevor Noah’s
statement about Zambians not having
escalators and actually we did have
escalators we had escalators way back in
the 70s and what happened to that why
did that disappear why did we lose our
way in that why do we lose that ambition
for them
nothing was impossible what really I was
trying to say is that I grew up in a
Zambia where there was all this belief
and I’m now in a Sambia where we’re
struggling to believe the video was
trying to show an era where we had
extreme ambition I hope they can get it
out but it’s our reaction to ambition
it’s our reaction to planning when I was
a small boy two years ago I arrived home
from school
and my grandfather was sitting in the
lawn reading always smiling and I’d ask
him what are you so happy about who is
sitting here content weeding along and
he said he had made a big decision many
years ago he had decided not to take on
the chieftainship and become chief
single Ummah third and he left capella
village in the eastern province of
Zambia and started walking down towards
South African mines he said the white
man has arrived and the whole world is
going to change I’m sitting here and
I’ll be quite comfortable
obviousiy ‘f it would be no issue for
him his life would have been perfectly
fine but he said I didn’t know where my
grandchildren would be in this new world
I didn’t know if they’ll be able to
acclimatize him whether I’d be able to
adapt to this new world so I had to make
the sacrifice so he made the sacrifice
he walked with two people ended up in
quick rains in Bob way and worked in a
coal mine from being a chief so I he his
feeling was I’m happy I made the right
decision
here you are you’re in this new world
and that risk I took all those years ago
for my grandchildren has paid off and it
was that long-term thinking that as a
nine year old I decided was what I had
to do and it’s the only way we’re going
to become six
let’s ambience I often use the example
of theft a a increasingly popular
pastime in Zambia and if you have 500
kwacha or $500 of your employer’s of
someone’s lying on a table next to you
and you’re thinking about in a span of
one month the month is going to be that
money is gonna be half your salary your
whole salary double your salary
it’s a significant amount you’re
thinking for a year and you’re thinking
well that’s $500 against you know was
six thousand dollars or six thousand
kwacha it doesn’t become a significant
if it’s over ten years it becomes even
less significant you’re going to be
saying sixty thousand dollars over this
five hundred and you’ll look for
whoever’s it is and give it back it’s
not worth it and it this affects the way
we think and my view is that we’ve got
to start looking at that long term
perhaps not as ambitious as my
grandfather through generations but
certainly we’ve got a long look long
term my grandfather’s buried in the an
old council symmetry and I took I was I
wasn’t happy with the way he was and so
I started a project to look at how I
could take that move him into a little
private half acre or one acre private
Cemetery for my family I found 80 acres
and I had to take that 80 acres and say
well there are many pities not that many
but if I needed it someone else would
need it and so I tried to push the idea
and expand it we got in investors we’ve
got several million dollars in and we
launched lepers Hill Memorial Park it
wasn’t because my lifelong ambition was
to start a cemetery
was because there was a meet and there
was a need for Zambia there was a need
for me and I could take an idea which is
small and grow it it’s uh it’s a
long-term project my other project is
Western power company it’s a 500 million
dollar 150 megawatt power station we
start building in about a year and it’ll
take three I build it’ll become Zambia
third largest power station and it
started from a little colonial map which
some friend of the family gave us and
said get on with it
but again coming back to timeframe we
started that project in earnest in 2012
we’ll be completing will start
construction in 2018 we’ll have finished
in 2021 the current commercial operation
date and I’ll take another 10 years of
Congo law or debt repayment to 2031 my
thinking had been short term and for my
benefit then that’s not a project to do
and I think not that it’s about myself
not that it’s about design you know
we’ve got to really just change the way
we think we all have this ability
we have brilliant ideas we have
brilliant people we have around the
world we have we have an underlying
entrepreneurial we have an underlying
basis to succeed but there are few for
me missing ingredients and one of those
is the ambition my brother was recently
speaking at a startup function and
afterwards he was asking a lot of very
young entrepreneurs what is it that you
want to do with your business and
several of them told him you know I can
just get
my business so it can pay my rent and
maybe I can even buy a car that is not
what we need my video was to show the
ambition over 1962
Zambia is trying to reach space wacky
world of Zambian astronauts whose leader
in 1962 confidently predicted they’ll be
the first men on the moon is this the
site for your rocket launching program
and could you tell me where your rocket
is yes this is the rocket launching site
and my rocket is just here ground
control to Major Charles at what is the
name of your organization the donor of
my organization is a national kuduro
Science Space Research understand
love
when will you fire off your first rocket
and where will you send it to I will
fight from moussaka and they do figure
to most Zambians these people are just a
bunch of crackpots and from what I have
seen today I’m inclined to agree so I’ve
been watching this video for years on
well recently in this search for you
know how my hats ambien
I have I’ve looked at it again in the
game and actually my feelings have begun
to change that was 1962 it was before
man had reached the moon we have right
now an African starting space tourism
Elon Musk and we admire him we turn
around we invest this in his companies
it’s worth billions of dollars
we don’t think Elon ism is a crackpot
but we do of ourselves ironically I
don’t know another country where we have
a saying designed around our our lack of
respect or admiration for each other and
that’s phd in most countries that’s your
doctorate in zambia it means pull him
down or pull her down and if you hear
what the colonial commentator says they
said most ambiens think they’re
crackpots and I’m inclined to agree and
for me that is where we are zombies
until we start to believe that we aren’t
crackpot and we can’t have giant ideas
and we can go to space and whatever we
want to do we can do it we have to have
a long-term planning we have to have
diligence and maybe like our friends in
1962 they don’t make it but if we don’t
start trying and we don’t start
believing and we stop thinking of
ourselves as being unable to achieve we
won’t I believe we can
I believe we have the skin in there and
the reason that this is my final slide
that I do believe one day we will see
chi cheng in space and hopefully it’ll
be from someone in this room so my name
is Sifu Phillip my Sara Peary and I
believe and I am a sandy thank you very
much
[Applause] [Music]
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