You are not judged by the color of your skin but the content of your character in GHANA!!!
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2022
- Joannes or "Joe" Hotagua is a Sierra Leonean/American living in West Africa. Strategic Advisor with 13 years of professional experience helping Startups monetize their digital assets & Fortune 500 Brands reach their target customers through Digital Media advertising. Early in his career, Joe was responsible for using email marketing and affiliate advertising to drive product purchases and lead generation for direct-to-consumer companies.
In 2009, Joe began working as an Internet Marketing Consultant and has been advising startups since. In 2011, Joe made the transition to helping fortune 500 brands reach their target consumers through programmatic advertising. This focus was in 3 key areas; 1. Desktop (via display ads), 2. Mobile (via video/native/display), and 3. IP Connected TV (via Advanced TV).
In 2012 Joe began his investment career by personally investing in PeepsOut, a minority-run Livestream mobile app, that allowed users to see the crowd size at bars and restaurants in real-time. At its peak, there were 90 restaurants and bars (in two cities) on the service, and $350K raised in funding ($100k Joe personally sourced from investors).
In 2019, Joe launched Hotagua Enterprises, a Freetown, Sierra Leone based firm, focused on improving the lives of underrepresented and underserved populations. Hotagua Enterprises LTD is currently operating in 4 sectors: African Startup Advisory, African Film Production, E-commerce, and Realestate.
Advisory
*African For-Profit advisory - Atunwa (Ghana), Blvck (Nigeria), and DoChase (Nigeria).
*African Non-Profit advisory - United African Congress (Worldwide), and WMB Launchpad (Sierra Leone)
African Film Production - Focused on telling the stories of the underrepresented and underserved.
*Irish Goodbye - screened at Cannes in 2019
*The German King - is an Oscar qualifier in 2019.
Ecommerce
*Authentic African, is both an e-commerce store and Social Media Page. The e-commerce mission is to connect the diaspora with their African roots through African handmade products while helping local African entrepreneurs build their businesses internationally. The @Authentic_African IG Page delivers History, News, and Culture to the African diaspora.
*ForevergreenSupply.com, is an online grocery, looking to bring healthy living and eco-friendly products to the African Diaspora. It houses 20,000+ natural, organic, gourmet, and specialty products from the top brands in the industry(Method Soap, Seventh Generation, Honest Co, etc.).
Real Estate developments in Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone, designed to create sustainable, eco-friendly rentals.
YT: / @authenticafrican
IG: / authentic_african
A room; styrofoam shells from TV packages; Kente Cloth; an array of Star Wars toys with that classic 1995 “Power of the Force” Millennium Falcon; and the fearless encouragement of his older brother. This was all that Amartei Armar needed to fuel his imaginations and it served to be the beginnings of his journey towards becoming a storyteller through film.
The product of a Ghanaian father and an American mother, he found topics surrounding identity, immigration, and the human need to feel a sense of belonging both utterly fascinating and conflicting having spent most of his life moving back and forth between the two countries.
Upon completing his BFA in Film Production at the University of British Columbia, he completed his first film “ARC” which went on to screen successfully at many international festivals. He later moved back to Ghana permanently to team up with super producer, Yemoh Ike, working together to create “VAGABONDS”, his first film shot in his “fatherland” Ghana. The short film went on to screen at several festivals around the world. It’s highest achievement, winning the Oscar Qualifying 1st Prize Award in the Short Film World Competition at the Montreal World Film Festival. His most recent film, “I Like It Here’” received the coveted Vimeo Staff Pick Award online.
Currently he is Paris on course to release two more Ghanaian short films this year in 2022, as he prepares to direct his first feature length film, which will be set in Ghana.
IG: @amartei_armar - Розваги
I can’t wait to finally come and settle back home in Ghana 🇬🇭
We cant wait
I have the honour of being a returnee descendant who was born in Ghana. I was born in UK to Jamaican parents and married my wonderful husband Ghanaian when we were in our 20s. I didnt know then what I know now that my destiny was to fall in love with the home of my ancestors and own a home of my own in Accra. My children know there heritage and Ghana is home. My testimony is huge and yes God quite literally led us to be together. I love Ghana so much and even though I just spent a month there and had the joy of seeing in the New Year there 2022. I lost my mother last September and was not able to bring her with us for Christmas but she a Jamaican now owns a piece of the motherland because it was her wish that I would live in Ghana and now I own a home we bought before it was even built and she was thrilled. So I have come home and am happiest when I am in Ghana. I plan to share my testimony on my channel soon but for now I am so excited to see so many like minded brothers and sisters returning and I pray for their dreams and vision for the future of Ghana to be fulfilled. God planted the seed for my life and destiny to be married to a Ghanaian and to return to my motherland before I even met or ever imagined it would happen to me. I am in awe of what the Lord has done. God bless you all in your endeavours to make a new life in Ghana.
I were tired of Western world.
No place like home.
Such a great conversation. Thanks for having me on for this discussion. I truly believe that more of the diaspora need to come back home to live a complete life. I don't think I will ever move back to the US full time.
Absolutely! we were glad to have you also
Africa is going high with such mentally......we will all do our best for mother Africa 🌍❤ thank u guys
Nice to see our young Men taking the right step to learn to live well and free
I love Denta , hilarious shows you put together always. You are so good in what you do. Thanks so much for bringing Ghana to us. I’m African but I now feel I should be Ghanaian in specific 😂😂😂
You are so welcome
Denta's passion is priceless, the look on her face when talking about people with different knowledge connecting with each other ❤🇬🇭
Thank you Gifty
This is the kind of education Ghana and Africans needs , to educate Africans the horrible, disturbing things our brothers and sisters in the diaspora endured. Africa as a whole has no clue.
The brother is right, when African Nations embrace blockchain tech it will catapult us forward and open a myriad of opportunities.
Agree
Absolutely beautiful as well as inspiring that Africans coming back home are totally uninterested in going back to the West and justifiably so.
Well done to my kings and queens coming home and making Africa their livelihood for good.
Yes there are challenges but we know how to overcome them.
Excellent conversation. You all give me hope about the future of our motherland. All the best.
Ghana to the world, it’s time for the diaspora to come home and make Africa great again ! ✊🏿
Absolutely
Just give them 2 years when the reality start hitting them i know they will run back to the USA....The system in Ghana is so corrupt
@@entertainmentbanter6587 always negative,do you think diasporians started coming to Ghana only this year.There are diasporians who have been living quietly in Ghana for many years,it's because of social media that's why it's now news to you.
They virtually all retirees
I love her. She is a catalyst for the diaspora to come to Africa and grow with the people TOGETHER.
Love the conversation and the insights... Well done Dentaa for blowing the horn of return. 🥰🤩🔥
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
I love this show. Thank you Denta for always giving us great content on Ghana 🇬🇭 It definitely added to me visiting Ghana last December. I’m starting my own body butter business and I bought my Shea butter in Ghana. The people of Ghana are so friendly and ready to do business. I will be back this year. Praise God!
Our pleasure!
Africa is home for the dark skin.. can wait to bring my family home..
To be honest I have never seen an African woman who is as passionate about Africa as you are. And that gives me hope.
Thank you so much 🙏🏾
dr aricana
One of the best interviews. These guys are intelligent. So inspirational.
Thank you
Very much informative 👍
Apart from Accra, I also like Timbuktu and Addis Ababa.
The making of movies is a great idea. I've always wanted someone to make movies of a successful Afrika, maybe with small pockets of poverty but show a solution to destroy it. These are feel good movies and Afrikans need to see this. I watch mostly Afrikan movies but many of them are in the villages where ppl are so poor. My thirst can only be quenched with a movie about portraying us as rich.
Black Panther put a pride in all of us. Movies can change the way we think about ourselves and we must change that poor and begging mentality and pursue greatness.
I am going to say something here. I think we need to have a battle of the jellof rice competition just to settle this matter. Sorry to say Flavour Nabania said Cameroon has the best jellof rice and I agree. Let's choose the candidates who claim they can do it better not just people from the streets and carry out this competition so that we can lay it to rest. Let's recommend people from all jellof cooking countries so that this challenge can begin. For Cameroon I will recommend Kengskitchen, Fran's cuisine or Precious core. Perhaps this can be one of your episodes just for the fun of it.
More Americans are leaving the states because things are changing for the worse not better. I'm hoping and praying me and my two boys can make it out as well. Right now we are working on gettin passports here and making sure we can earn a living and live good where ever we go in Africa.
Very enjoyable show
Wow, this young Amartey guy is really intelligent
The guy from Georgia is right about El Salvador and Cryptocurrency, Ghana NEEDS more of the guys from the tech sector to invest and the govt need to give these people incentives, especially with NFTS, im still trying to learn about NFTS because people are literally making multi-millions overnight, its crazy
Great explanation on the loss of purchasing power because of inflationary money/Fiat supply. Zimbabwe and Venezuela are prime examples of this mess. These are things I learned in my adulthood and not in class.
Very good explanation
I totally agree with movies charging cheaper. It's never made sense to me when you get to movie theaters and see just a handful of people in there just because most people can't afford it. It just doesn't give the same vibe and l didn't need to go back.
Very insightful interview.
Thanks for watching
Thanks for another great video.
As you said we always heard of the American dream.
It's time you start pushing it further as the African dream,
So it becomes part of Psyche. 🙏👏
Thank you Alfred. Let’s go!
true
There's no place like home! Again, there is absolutely no, no, no, place like home! See you sooner than later!
Another engaging and eye-opening conversation from these great minds. I'm amazed by the kind of knowledge these people are sharing. Thanks to you Dentaa and your team.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@ODANANETWORK This repatraition of our Blood Brothers and sisters are Welcome. Our Great Ancestors will be happy in their graves and wherever they are in the bosom of the Good Lord
@@ODANANETWORK We need to plan for more infrastructure development and expansion else there will be congestion in Accra, cape coast and Kumasi because most of our Blood Brothers and Sisters are heading towards these areas. Please use your medium to interract with Government of Ghana and suggest more initiative about expansion of infrastructures. Thank You
@@andybrown5817 great suggestion
That’s why you should be part of the solution American was not built in a day 👍
Beautiful interview♥️♥️😍🙏
Great Episode as always
Love this programme. Planning on coming back soon
Thank you indeed we can change African 👍❤️
Thanks so much for the discussion. It was very informative and insightful!!
Thanks for watching
Please tell the Governments n of those Africans countries that have that mandatory vaccines mandates to removed them. I know many peoples that want to travel
Unfortunately our so-called black leaders or presidents on the continent are mostly SELLOUTS_In due time all of these few families will be CRUSHED to finally FREE the people and the minds to build the impossible for good
Ghana has finally dropped the vaccine mandate as of February 2022
@@williamgamelisenaya793 did they?
@@lilacer6841 yes they did
Good eei!
great conversation
Hi one thing I will say is that we cannot start to understand the number of competent black people currently living worldwide that wish to return. When people comment on your focus on Ghana but slant it towards Africa as a whole, it's not tribalism, it's liberty from the residue of our colonial history. If Ghana was big enough for all blacks we would move there. It isn't so, and so by all means focus but look at Russia, if Africa doesn't Unite I won't make the prediction but we are on a one way street t
Thank you Lady Dentaa, glad to see the return to programming. The discussion was awesome, amazing guys, already following Joe. I live in BC currently, so I can't wait to see the films, of UBC graduate, Amartei has made, and is going to make, I want to know these stories, and watch these movies, and see the beauty of Ghanaian actors on screen!
Fella's, why so evasive, the ladies give much more tea!!! However I will confirm, "Ohhhh" like Duncan, Ghanaian Ladies, stunning, Yes!!
Thank you for always watching
@@ODANANETWORK Always Ma'am!
@@AtosKitchen oh we met again here.
Beautiful Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
Inspiring
Thank you
Excellent conversation! ✨🙏🏿
Thanks for listening
Dope
Thank you
The day you will do wrong ,we will remember you where you come from.
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Thank you Papa
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Hahahaha very interesting conversations 😅😅😀😀😀
Glad you enjoyed it
Great experience
We agree!
people dont get it the opportunities in Africa is not only gold and oil the real gold mine is the many problems
from the filth to any problem you see. what we need is solutions to this problems.
Dentaa pls u and NYA ll stay in KOTOKO SC 110yrs wai😅😀😀😀😅😅🤣😅
Its so sad to see africa extending a welcoming open hands to the Diaspora, and the diaspora is all locked up in those cold, snowy, racist don't like Blacks countries. The diaspora are ashamed and do not want to let go.
The move takes PLANNING and finances. We don't want to be a burden on society. We are visiting Ghana in August. We are retired. We are also interested in Namibia
I know. Some blacks consumes to much unwanted Unusable things that have or carries a value..that why they are locked into a system that is taking them longer, and harder to get out of..Things like wasting monies on holidays that have no values financially
I can say that I disagree. It’s lack of saving, information, exposure and knowledge. I’m coming from a “southern” family and I took initiative to learn more and UA-cam has inspired me to want better after I seen better. I never had anyone that visited or talked about it. They couldn’t teach me what they didn’t know or what was beat out of them. Think it was a generational limitation. So the idea was based on my own curiosity.
The zuga coin from Nigeria totally destroyed bitcoin last year .it went to over $200.000 dollars
The people in the US are mean, selfish and heartless. I am glad these young people got out and pray they never come bank to this God awful country!
Please, director start the mobile cinema.
I love what you are doing. I would like to have the contact of the guy in the middle. I'm in ucc right now. I want to know if I could get him to organise a training workshop for us. I really want to learn it as do my friends.
Please email me dentaashow@gmail.com
@Projoe LLC...Did you really say that?
How exactly do the Asantes treat them?
In Ghana, there is stereotyping of all tribes...it is across board and all tribes do not
Interesting stories...What are the names of your interviewees.?
Very insighful and interesting topics. Thanks Dentaa.
Glad you enjoyed it!
pls Dantaa pls let the diasporians know if you dont have a mind of coming with a solution to some of this problems ( which is not going to be done in 3 days) stay in America or Europe dont come to Africa. what you have done or trying to do is change and give a positive narative of the continent, has it been easy i dont think so. That is what we need
I 💟 SEEING MY FOLLOW BLACKS ALL OVER THE 🌐CHANGING THEIR 👉 MINDSETS ON 👉 AFRICA CONTINENT AS A WHOLE.
CHARACTERS COUNT BUT NOT THE SKIN COLOR OF YOUR BODY (WHAT A POWERFUL INTELLIGENT STATEMENT FROM 👉 💯% 💟 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🔑🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Lol...teenagers are building house in Lagos
Yes but it use to be what our parents did.. there has been a paradigm shift now
🤴🏾👸🏾⚡️👁👏🏾
I think you should limit your opinions so we can hear more from them tho
Ok sure
You are judged by your tribe though.
That is another subject to be discussed
They were most probably not gainfully employed in the US anyway.
So, naturally, Africa became the default go-to 2nd chance to try make it.
You need your mindset evaluated
Stop kidding yourself....you have privilege from coming from USA. You have skills that are needed there. I have privilege in Jamaica 🇯🇲 because I go there from UK 🇬🇧. Don't go without capital or a skills...privilege comes in many forms....you were making very good money...Ghana has a large diaspora Nigeria has the largest
with all the Pz she makes still wont get a better mic, respect your product.
Damnnn such negativity. If you don't have nothing to say just zip it. Jesusssss.....
@@Rakonre i said something, did you not read it?
You should change the channel to BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera etc….for more misleading news for all we care. Africa we move ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
@@TEEJAY-ej5xt where ya going
@@aldialad you can watch something else or go to sleep 😂😂😂🤣😍
@Projoe LLC...Please go get some education and don't put stuff out there that is not true
That’s not true we have tribal bigotry in Ghana and it’s worst than what you experience at the hands of the white man. Ask the northners, ewes, etc how the Asantes treat them
Are you alright Sir, has any Ashantis kill Ewe or Ga person because of their tribe. Think before you comment. Oh I forgot, you never been to the States and you don't know what we go through.
Please cut the shade how bad
Project or whoever you call yourself, l am sorry to say that you are saying shit. Next time think well before commenting.
You dont know what you are talking about. Are you even any of those groups. Stop lying.
Lol...teenagers are building house in Lagos
But it doesn't take away the fact that it's a huge step for a diasporian to have the confidence to build. Especially if someone else is doing the actual building and they're far way not knowing if they're getting value for their money.