The Beginning...

I hope this doesn’t turn out to be too long, but I have to go back to a few months ago so that you fully understand where this blog and eventual website come from…

I still vividly remember the day that I handed in my notice to my boss. It had been a long time coming indeed. I had previously just relocated to Manchester, England, and found a corporate, fairly-well paying wage job with an American company in quite a short amount of time. While this job was a step up from my prior role and allowed me to develop and improve necessary skills in business and life, I myself knew that it was only a matter of time.

My daily routine commenced with me waking up between 6:00 – 6:15 a.m. and I would routinely arrive home around 7:30 – 8:00 p.m. most nights except Fridays. I’ll keep this section brief in order to not inherit a libel suit or to name any names, but I kept on thinking to myself as I have for the last couple of years than there had to be something else.

My parents and family come from the country of Uganda, which is located in East Central Africa (Sub-Saharan Africa) and is directly west of Kenya. My parents fled the country in 1975, to the United States during the terrible regime of Idi Amin that I’m sure many of you have heard of. If you wanted a quick introduction you could watch the movie “The Last King of Scotland” which featured Forrest Whittaker and James McAvoy.

Since the age of 12 my parents did all they could to make sure me and my siblings did not lose touch with our roots and traveled back to the country at least every 2-years. As children we were exposed to different ways of life many of our counterparts back in the Western world could not imagine. Thinking back to that time 12+ years ago it makes sense as the world was much less globalized during the early stages of the internet. My father grew up in the countryside in a village called Budondo, which is located near Jinja (45-minute drive to Kampala.) My mother grew up in the capital city of Kampala.

As I continued to make trips back to Uganda throughout the years, I knew that I wanted to somehow be involved of the transformation of not only Uganda, but the continent as a whole. Walking through the streets of the neighborhoods in Kampala and elsewhere you would constantly see flashes of entrepreneurial magic in regards to creativity and innovative thinking.

One question that always filled my mind is what the people could do with the right technologies and inputs? I grew up playing computer games such as “Ages of Empires” and “Sims” so I guess you could say that I liked creating, watching and trying to influence how things can grow, call it development if you want to.

I decided I would somehow try and find a way to make a difference in people’s lives and leave the world knowing that I partook in something worthwhile that had some meaning to it.

This is the beginning of my journey to make a difference and reap the financial rewards associated with taking a chance and following what you believe in.