Founder of Starbites Restaurant says 'Come Home'
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2020
- Eric Andoh, moved to Ghana from the U.K. and started one of the most successful Ghanaian-owned restaurant chains in the country, Starbites.
This is a clip from the interview I did with him recently about his business success.
Starbites has 11 locations in Ghana. Visit their website at www.starbitesgh.com for their menu and details on locations.
Follow them on Instagram - / starbitesgh
Brilliant- always encouraging to here these stories.
Glad you liked the video.
It's good to hear from some who used to live in the UK.
This is very very good to hear.
Good ADIVCE BRO,
Hi Ivy...That was so informative..."STAR BITES!"...Lol...good for him, nice video and well worth listening too...Thank you! :D
if you are a ghanaian expatriate, then the "come home" appeal may have some purchase. but if you are a black american, ghana is a foreign country, it is not "home". that's not to say that you can't make it home, but when you are going there, you are going to a foreign country. that isn't a negative comment because i state it as someone who really likes ghana (a day doesn't go by that i don't think about going back), but it is a foreign country in which people there have ways that are foreign to me (notwithstanding the fact that some people there apparently think that i am a "burger").
that said, ghana is a place with a lot of opportunity, people in ghana too often tend to not see it that way, but there are a lot of people from china and other countries who do see it that way. ghana is also a country with a *lot* of problems (but in one regard, problems can be seen as opportunities). so if you're got a plan, and a problem that you seek to address, you can really make a go of it in ghana. and no (in my opinion), ghana probably does not need someone to start yet another "heath and beauty" venture. industrial and technology ventures would probably be a lot more useful.
but you've got to want to do more than just "reconnect with the ancestors" (whatever that means); you've got to deal with the present day world. that means that it's not enough to just want "culture", or to want to "live off the land". there is a "new colonialism" sweeping through the african continent these days. so the world is not going to leave you alone to "reconnect with the ancestors". that wasn't true 400 years ago, and it isn't true today.
facts and many go there with a western mentality, they don't realize that certain thing like censorship and stuff like that are common, and also what they don't understand is that Africa is a patriarchal country, meaning that the male has more power to say than a woman, its not uncommon for male Africans to not listen to what a woman has to say at all, I am also looking to move to Africa but I am going there knowing that not everything is going to be roses happiness and making money, there are serious issues that need to be taken seriously and not looked at with naive eyes.
@@arellysritchieauthor i don't know to which african country you are looking to relocate, but, at least in ghana, you can limit (to some degree) the sexism stuff by avoiding the traditional areas. i think that is true in a lot of african nations. i might add that this is true in non-african nations as well. for example, there are communities in india, which still openly engage in such barbaric practices (such as "honor" killing) that they make even the most backward traditional communities in ghana look progressive by comparison.
but with regard to african vs western mentalities, there are areas where people in african nations really do need to change their attitudes. clinging to outdated "proud traditions" just won't do.
take chieftaincy, for example. chieftaincy is a failed institution. it is idiotic that the 1992 ghana constitution has actually incorporated chieftaincy as an official institution. african people can no more salvage chieftaincy than europeans could have salvaged feudalism. the tendency of many africans to cling to traditions that are well past their "sell by" dates is one factor that i think holds them back.
@@paperwait9611 exactly, the honor killings, the chieftaincy, and tribalism all need to be eradicated from the world entirely, tribalism and chieftaincy also need to be completely erased from the African continent, both of these so-called traditions are holding Africa down, also to your question I am looking to relocate to either Gambia, ghana or Rwanda, Rwanda is BIG on my list, ghana is too but the business registration process is too tiring compare to Rwanda, and at least in ghana I can keep my passport which in neither Gambia nor Rwanda I am allowed too, but like you said Africa don't need another hair salon, no baby, I am going into construction.