Why Live 8 Sucked and What You Can Do About It?

Hey,

If you didn’t think I was odd before, get ready to believe I am. I was reading a great free report by Rich Schefren and in the midst of it, he asked us to create a faux-advertisement to hire staff to our organization.

Rich proposed that instead of thinking of what we offer as simply a job we should think of our firm as standing for a higher purpose and giving folks a chance to join that.

Now, I don’t own a firm, hence, the unedited, unproofed, “quite different” article today.  Felt good to write it, pretty darn good.

Some time ago, some frat kids, some rock stars and a whole lot of celebrities got together and held Live 8. The premise of Live8 was to end poverty, particularly African poverty forever. Now, I know that you, just like me, knew that Live 8 wouldn’t result in much. Sure we knew they would sign dance and wave their glow sticks. We also knew that like politicians since time immemorial, the G8 leaders would step forward and present their latest way to increase the compound interest loans that have helped keep Africa under their boot while declaring it “relief” or “charity” or “their divine gift to us”

Sadly we all knew that a few weeks later, no one would remember Live 8 and more importantly, no one would remember your family and mine who are still living in a poverty that they never helped create.

Well it is time to put an end to that. My name is Tony Chomba Mwangi Njanja and I am going to tell you how.

First of all we need to change our focus. The focus of Live 8 was to make poverty history. We need to first change our focus to creating wealth today. I should be clear though, I am not just talking about Mercedes Benzes and 5 Star mansions. I am talking about a depth of spirit, relationships based on love, respect and friendship and a country and environment that we can genuinely feel proud to leave to the next generation. So, instead of focussing on how we will get our family members out of poverty and into that vacuum where they will now be middle class and ignorant, let’s change our focus to making them the best human beings possible and leave signs of divine blessings all over them.

The question then becomes, how can we help them create wealth. The answer is quite simple. By creating wealth ourselves and then teaching them how to do it. This is where you come in. For the last 8 months, I have run the blog, theDisplacedAfrican.com, where I have poured my heart and soul into revealing the best knowledge I had on how we can become true stewards of wealth in this world.

Over the past few months, it became increasingly clear to me, that trying to teach a hungry man how to have a better psychology is like trying to play tennis with an elephant as a racquet: very illogical to the point of being ludicrous. So I paused to reflect and realized something:

I wasn’t helping people take enough action.

I mean, you and I both know that this is where the success truly lies. When we take the greatest gift that God gave us, our free will and use it to take action and bring about results. My blog, however, was nothing more than an intellectual pitstop. A place where people could stop by and feel good about themselves, bad about me, bad about others, inspired, relieved etc etc. Don’t get me wrong, I love inspiring people, and I love having positive nurturing debates. But we don’t need any more Pursuit of Happyness movies, what we need are Chris Gardiners. We need more people so dedicated to results that they take action each and every single day.

And so, I expanded the Displaced African and opened up  the Displaced African mentorship program. Here, I take all my successes, the successes of all the great African immigrants I can find and process all this into a practical, get it done course, dedicated to helping people take action and achieve results in their life.

This is where you come in. You see, most people don’t understand immigrant law. In truth, most of us, don’t care. When we do, it’s usually because we have problems. We usually only care when we have a DUI that threatens to deport us, or our visa expired but we had no money for the ticket home or our friend has been arrested and we want to help them stay in the country. But a lot of this time, these people have nowhere to turn even in these desperate moments.

The Displaced African is committed to putting an end to that. We want to ensure that no matter the day, someone always has access to a sound mind that is well versed in immigration law. And so, I am inviting you to join my mentorship program as an immigration consultant, as part of my emergency team.

Whereas it may seem like the emergency team isn’t linked to the Live 8 goal ( remember that), I can assure you it is and I’ll tell you how.

Mark has been working so hard on creating a business thanks to the strategies presented in the Displaced African course that he doesn’t realize that his Visa application is due.

He is in a bind and doesn’t know what his options are.

One call to the helpline and his mind is put completely at ease: He can apply for the next six months, which he does through the firm and two weeks later he has his Visa in the mail.

Mark continues to work on his business which turns into the largest supplier of faux fur to the Alaskan people since the Eskimoes left.

He is wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.

One of the conditions of attending the course is that you must find a way to use your wealth to both educate and resource permanently the leaders and growth of our great home. Mark has no problem with this because he has had this gnawing desire to go home and work on something meaningful for a while.

Upon returning to his homeland of Kenya he realizes that he can quickly and easily revive and expand the late great Fideli’s MICH project which took certain parts of Nyanza from poverty to excess. Using the business skills he picked up abroad, he expands the project so quickly that within 2 years it is not only in Nyanza province but the whole East African region, with plans to expand to Central Africa.

While he does this, he notices that the level of rape in his native community of Nyeri is quite high. Using skills he learned from the mentoring program, he starts up, and much to everyone’s surprise, succesfully implements sexual sublimation classes. Who knew men didn’t always have to succumb to their base level desires? They can just redirect the stuff. This program is also so succesful that it becomes part and parcel of the revivied MICH program and begins to expand throughout the region.

I could go on and on and on, talking about how he creates a church for young men committed to taking positive, aggressive action to improve the community every single day. I could talk about his Sri Lankan wife, who he actually chose as opposed to settled for. I could also talk about his business building courses which he teaches every Sunday.

Instead, I will remind you, that all this happened because on that fateful day, when Mark could have been deported, you were there. You gave him guidance, you have him comfort and now, you have given Africa a future.

Do you want to be that missing piece in our jigsaw puzzle. If so, call XXX-XXXX and let’s talk about whether you are right for the vision of the company. Are you just looking for a Just Over Broke (JOB) that will pay your bills do not apply? Do you just want paper? Next!

We want people who care so much about the mission above that even if they were poor paupers living on the Street in sackcloth, that’s what they would work on. We want people who have such a gnawing in their heart to see African immigrants and Africa do better that they will come to the office early and leave late every single day. We care about your heart much more than we do about your credentials, though we definitely need for you to have credentials in…………………………….

So if that is you, and I have described a place where you want Africans to be, then please call XXX-XXX and speak to Tendai about coming in to speak to us.

Have an absolutely magnificent day,
Mwangi

Hey,

For the next few days I thought I would try something a little different.

What’s that Mwangi?

You can ask me any questions whatsoever and I will attempt to answer. At the moment I won’t put any rules or restrictions on what you can ask and I’ll see how we go with that.

This is a Multimedia Site

When writing the question, make sure you specify whether you want your answer in:

a) Writing

b) Audio

c) Video

How to Ask the Question

Leave a comment below or email me at masmilele(at)thedisplacedafrican(dot)com with your questions and I will answer them as best as I can.

What to Do with the Rest of the Day/Night

Have a phenomenal day or night,

Mwangi

Salutations. This page has been created with two purposes in mind:

1) To encourage media outlets to get in contact with the Displaced African

In a nutshell, if your media outlet is doing good work and you want to interview me or get in touch with me, I am available 24/7 as long as I receive prior notification of 24 hours or more.

So send me an email now at masmilele@thedisplacedafrican.com or check out my contact page and let’s get talking.

2) To post up all the press that the Displaced African receives and all its media appearances:

I don’t want to have to stop churning out content in the intended order or interrupt the regularly scheduled programming of the blog every time I appear in the media.

And so I have created this page which I will update every time I make a media appearance that I can publicly share. Check on this place regularly as I intend on media and media appearances becoming a big part of the Displaced African blog.

Media and Press Appearances

My cash flow muse, got a front page chance to display its merit when it was featured on the 4th biggest Internet marketing blog on Earth ( 50,000 daily RSS readers+), Entrepreneur’s Journey. Check out the article below:

The 7 Secrets To A Successful Podcast

On 21st December 2008, after a period where I had tried for months, without any effort, one of my articles got featured on Global Voices Online. It was:

Why I Blog About Africa?

Featured on the Homepage of the African Bulletin on September 2008

Thanks to Caroline Atieno, a writer from the African Bulletin and a comrade in arms for not only putting my press release on the homepage of the African Bulletin in September 2008 but also getting me a monthly spot on their newspaper. Asante sana!

ii) I was then featured again on November 2008:

Relocating to Africa from African Bulletin Nov 2008

iii) December 2008:

7 Reasons Why Men Reject Women

Featured in the Pilot Episode of Real Talk (Interviewed 30th August 2008)

Susan Kariuki featured me in the first episode of her show Real Talk

Interviewed by Capital FM on July 9th 2008

A great 30 minute interview with Linda that was featured on Urban Nites on Capital FM. I recorded this myself by recording the live stream of Capital FM and then cutting it up in an amateur fashion: the content is still 100% intact and hearable:

My Interview with SARFM Radio in New York

As a result of my press release being featured on African Loft, I got a call from the lovely Pamela Stitch all the way in New York and we managed to record this fun interview where we cover aspects of my immigrant life, interracial relationships, Heidi Klum and Seal:

This lead to my having:

A Regular Show on SARFM Radio

Every third Sunday at 5 a.m. (GMT+10h) as of 17th August 2008, I have my own segment, with Pamela Stich, on SARFM Radio where I would share insights and we will discuss diasporian issues:

17th August 2008 show:

Pamela Stich Moved to zim NET radio…….and so I followed

Listen to our first show. Very open, very free flowing discussion about things which I am far from an expert:

11th November 2008(To be honest I am not sure of the exact date it went up but it went up during this week):

Metro Zimbabwe Writeup

Pammy did a write-up after our show on Metro Zimbabwe:

Could Your Man Be Cheating?

My first ever appearance on Capital FM

Linda and the Urban Nites team talk about and send some love to the Displaced African.

I talked about it in the article below:

Listen Now to the Displaced African’s Appearance on Capital FM in Kenya

Enough Rope with Andrew Denton on ABC TV

In November of 2008, I applied and I was accepted onto the Guestbook of the ABC Show, Enough Rope with Andrew Denton ( which is part of my maniacal plan to get featured on the show before it ends forever, mwah ha ha ha ha ha)

The ABC Australia Logo

My First Appearance as a Guest Columnist on Afrik, the English version.

Find the first article I submitted here:

Barrack Obama: A role model or simply an empty symbol

This article was adapted and based on my earlier article:

The Empty Symbol That is Barrack Obama

My Guest Post to One of the Largest Websites in Nigeria according to Alexa.com, Naija Ecash:

3 Blogging Secrets Learned from My First 5 Months of Blogging

My Appearance on the Website, Kenyan Jewels:

They featured the press release I sent them:

Kenyan Jewel: Tony Njanja (Australia)

My Press Release Featured on African Loft:

Displaced African Press Release

My media and podcast page on African Loft:

Masmilele Page on Africanloft

My press release was featured on the site African Path

The Displaced African Press Release

One of the writers of African Path, Benin Mwangi was gracious enough to say some kind things about Mwangi, the Displaced African and the Displaced African podcast.

My appearance on the Nairobi Star Newspaper:

It all started with the interview below:

Nairobi Star’s Grace Kerogo Interviews Mwangi

And ended with this article (please ensure that you have Adobe Reader to read the article), where unfortunately the name of my site was mispelled. First media appearance for me and so I was thankful and didn’t really care.

Nairobi Star Article featuring the Displaced African

The Weird Way In Which I Ended Up Mentioned on the East African Standard

Follow the trail beginning here:

M Does Not Stand for Mwangi: Mwangi Stands for Mwangi » The Displaced African

My First Guest Post on Kenya Imagine

It all started when I got contacted by Kenya Imagine:

A Cause for Celebration: Have a Great Day!

And Julia from Kenya Imagine asked me to bring my debate to Kenyan Imagine:

Why Stereotypes Can Be Good and What we are Taught about Formalized Education Sucks?

And I have since had quite an interesting, controversy, debate filled time over there:

The Case For a Formal Education

Stereotypes and Formalized Education: Good Thing or Bad Thing

So, Do African Men Only End Up with Obese Western Women?

My Feature on Kabissa

The website Kabissa featured a link to my post where I described RSS and talked about the benefits of using it.

My Interview with Yaro Starak

Here,Yaro Starak, who has more than 30,000 readers of his own on the blog Entrepreneur’s Journey, interviews me regarding my participation in his Blog Mastermind program.

As a result of this interview I got featured on my first ever sales page, the Blog Mastermind sales page

George Ukomadu from the Afropolitan Experience interviewed me and featured this blog on his site. Much thanks and love.

To stay a part of the Displaced African (tDA) community as it continues to grow, subscribe to the site via RSS or email.

Professional Images of the blog’s head writer,Mwangi

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This is day 2 of My 4 Hour Work Week Journey

Now, below I will mention 4 things I liked about the book, the 4 hour work week and won’t talk about any negatives because I’m sure those will become self-evident as I work through the book over the coming days. That, and I don’t want to psyche myself out too early in my 4 hour work week journey.

4 Things I Love About the Four Hour Workweek

1) He is Empirical: To name a book ” 4 hour workweek” screams:

Hyperbole! Hype!B.S. !

So when I began to read about Tim, I expected his writing and his work to sound like a circus director or a car salesman: a lot of sales talk with very little substance to back it up.

Boy was I pleasantly surprised. If I could summarize one of Tim’s oh-my-goodness-that’s-genius-approaches-to-life-it-would-be:

Test your assumptions

Don’t automatically assume the limitations placed upon you by society, your background or yourself are true. Instead, conduct small tests and see what happens. As a result of Tim doing this, a lot of what’s in the four hour workweek isn’t an abstract manual but rather:

2) A Fascinating True Story: I want to do a lot of great, oddball things with my life before I die. I think I have found a person with an equally quirky spirit in Timothy Ferriss.

The man has, and is, revolutionizing the Western approach to work. He is the Chinese National Kickboxing Champion. He has won international tango competitions. He is a break dancer. He has been on television in Hong Kong. He has done all this while running a multinational company.

He didn’t accept what others took as the norm or limitations. He lifestyle supersedes any limits society might have imposed on him and this is part of the reason that I’m so drawn to him. It’s also the reason that:

3) He Has Backup from Heavy Hitters: I became a fan of Tim when I heard an interview he did with my blogging go-to-mentor Yaro Starak.

Among his mentors are the man who has sold 130 million books worldwide, Jack Canfield. He has been invited to give talks to everyone including the numero uno themselves, Google-check out the video at the very top of the article.

He isn’t some marginal rebel who is hated by the greats in society. His work appeals to a broad spectrum of folks from lone contractors to CEOs of Fortune 500s. Lord knows I’m African and authority figures influence me big time.
Finally I like the fact that:

4) He Teaches Us How to Separate Hours from Income: Now many Africana will tell you that this idea is simply preposterous. I watched my folks clock in 8-12 hour days 6 days a week and that’s the only way that folks can make a living right?

When I interviewed David Kobia and he spoke about the way his mother couldn’t understand how he could not be working in an office and could be doing all his work online.

I think I kinda went through the very same thing when this idea was presented by Jay Abraham, Yaro Starak and Tim Ferriss that your income didn’t have to be linked to the hours you work but rather the value you provide. Now however, I have embraced that this in fact possible: Me likes and I want a piece of that.

Anyway, someone left me a comment saying that I should do more posts where I present the options available for immigrants in regards to economic stability and prosperity.

So here goes: the trial continues. I have spoken to a few of you who are trying and living out alternatives to the bread and butter mill that is the 9 to 5. Together let’s build a library full of options that future immigrants can use to thrive in so far as the dollar is concerned.

I’m rambling now, but I ramble because I’m excited. Anyway either:

i) Click here to buy a copy of the 4 hour work week from Amazon.com

ii) Pay a visit to his blog and learn a little more about the man and his great book.

And enjoy the rest of your day or night,

Mwangi

Three Part Article

This weekend I will be taking a trip and will have some time to think and reflect, so I thought I would ask y’all to help me reflect.

Part one: What Do You Want to Read?

As I approach article number 150, and readership continues to slowly climb, I thought I would take some time out to ask you all what you want to read. So, leave a comment or email me privately by clicking on the “email the author” link at the bottom of the article and let me know what articles you would like to read?

Don’t let the limits of logic impede you, if you can imagine it and you want to read it, let me know about it. It might be something that I have wanted to do all along

Part two: What Have Been Your Favorite Articles So Far?

Again, leave a comment or email me, but please let me know which one or two or three or 7 articles have you liked from this blog so far?

Part three: Ways I Can Improve this Blog?

Even a sentence answering any of these 3 questions would be great but ideally, a paragraph or two or seven. Remember, I started this blog with the intent of doing some good, so help me serve you better.

Be blessed and bless others,

Mwangi

I’m sorry. I never use Internet explorer. However, I received a message from an old friend of mine who happened to stop by the blog. He said that the blog looked very cluttered and messy in design.

Anyway, I decided to open up my site on Internet Explorer and lo and behold there are things all over the place. Therefore for those of you who have been regular Internet explorer readers and have had to deal with those problems: my apologies and I’m on it.

I hope to make the site a bit more presentable in the near future and until then allow me to coax you to join the best free browser on Earth…Mozilla Firefox

Huge correction! This Post is My 100th Post, not my 101st………

If you would like to write a guest post or send any information please use one of the contact options on my contact page.

Some of my personal all time favorite posts.

1) Is This How You Define Yourself?

2) What It Means To Be a Part of the African Race Not Just the Human One

3) Martin Luther King’s Dream Had One Little Hitch: Tolerance Isn’t All That It’s Cracked Up to Be

4) The West Has Many Distractions: Focus on That Which Is Important Not That Which Is Urgent

5) An Open Letter to Women on How to Treat Men

6) Audio Interview: The Woman Who Entered a Poor, AIDS-ravaged Community and Left It as a Self-Sustaining Banana Exporter

7) How to Immigrate to Australia Within a Week: Introduction

To stay tuned as I do 100 more (actually a 1000 ) more posts, stay in touch via email or Real Simple Syndication(RSS).

bE bLESSED aND bLESS oTHERS,

mWANGI

Hello! Hello! Hello!
I am now declaring this week:

The Week that Audio Built

Brilliant Title for a Week, Mwangi. But Why?

I am glad you asked. This week every single post that I will release will have some audio component to it. This all begins of course with:

The Welcome Message
You will notice on the banner at the very top of the site, there is now a small media player with the words:

Press play to hear a welcome message from Mwangi

I created this little player just so that I had a novel way of promoting and reinforcing what the blog is about and guiding y’all and helping y’all get the most out of the website.

However, the Weirdest Thing
Though I have had the good fortune of being on radio for a very brief period on my life, I still felt very self conscious and nervous about recording the welcome message. In fact after recording five takes I just gave up on trying to record, ” a perfect message wherein I am comfortable,” and decided it was better to put something up ASAP and tweak it as I went along.

NB: As I release this I am working on a new version of the welcome message so I should be changing the welcome message very soon, God willing!

So I have decided to get over my self-consciousness over my vocal abilities in the best way I know how:

A Week Where I Do Voice Posts….Well, Not Exactly
Every single post I will do this week will involve my voice in some way shape or form and the posts for this week are divided into two categories:
1) Podcasts
2) Guest posts

Podcast
Tomorrow, I release my first ever podcast (yay!). I recorded it a few weeks back and its about a true-angel-among-men (or rather women) who died a little over a month ago. This is me talking to my mother about this great lady. Please listen, learn and distribute the podcast as much as you can, because she truly is Africa’s own Mother Teresa.

Guest Posts
After asking for help last week, I am glad to say some of you gladly obliged. I will be releasing the guest posts that have been sent to me over the course of the week with brief audio introductions for each from yours truly. Feel free to consider me like the blogging MC.

The Hit List

The guests who have blessed me with prose are:
a) Jim, from the forum that feels like your favorite Aunty’s home, Kenyanzone.
b) Acolyte from “My part of the world” (well, it’s his part of the world, not my part, for you see….aaaaahhhhh whatever!)
c) Seinlife from well “Seinlife” where I can actually discuss healthy eating and not look like a loony.
d) Gal Africana representing ‘the Hagen’, Copenhagen that is, in her “search for sanity“.

I truly hope you enjoy and are nourished by the week of festivities I have lined up. See you in the comments section.

If the idea of a week of audio excites you then please subscribe to the site for free via either email or RSS to get the latest audio posts as soon as they are released.

Hope your ears enjoy,
Mwangi

PS: If you claim to have been born in Africa but don’t know who Zangalewa are…..sigh, you missed out man. Enjoy the silliness and the poetry that is Tibeeeeeee….Zangalewa!

Do you remember the interview I did with Nairobi Star?

Well the newspaper came out today and apparently as a result of a mix-up, my identity is now interlocked with that of M of Thinker’s Room. To check out some comments on this mix up check out Shiroh’s site and the Thinker’s Room post on it as well.

Now, I have emailed M to let him know that I am fully aware of the mix-up and am willing to act to rectify the whole thing but he said not to worry. This is good, because on my end this will probably benefit me because I get a rub from one of the best blogs on the blogosphere.

Anyway, an interesting turn of events for an otherwise uneventful Tuesday afternoon.

I just shared this video with Gal Africana and I think the concept is pretty well understood within the African community: There is normal time and then there is African time; always late for everything.

Have a mind-blowing day and I’ll see you tomorrow,

Mwangi