DIASPORA WAHALA. When I was a little child there was nothing as interesting to me like traveling abroad. This was because some of our few relatives that came from abroad were perceived to be rich and special. When usually they came, we went to them expecting some gift fromwhite man contry. Some times they gave us toys or dresses that smelled good and sometimes money for our parents to buy some of our needs. As ambitious as I was, I mentored them and prayed that God should bless my Family to send me abroad so as to come back as hero and provide to others as well. I embarked on dancing break dance believing if my family couldnt send me over seas Michael Jackson will take me as a dancer and that will change my story. As times went on, I realized I became a provider to others without ever traveling abroad. My first experience abroad was in Dubai. Because I never found money as easy as I taught it was there, in addition to the extreme hot and uncomfortable weather, I returned to Cameroon. I later travelled to Taiwan there money was still hard to get. I returned and travelled to London it was a Sad story. Then I was told it is much more easier in America. When I later on travelled to America, it was worst. I went to brothers barbershop and shaved three of his clients and they paid 75$. I calculated that if I shaved 10 heads daily then I will be rich. I asked the brother if I could just rent a shop and start shaving to raise easy money and be shuffling between America and Cameroon he said I should consult their local administration for inquiry. There I was told I needed to go to school and study cosmetology to have a certificate as a cosmetologist Barber. I Googled and visited a School called Fortis Institute. They gave me a test on MCQ and I had 14/15. The admissions officer said I was very intelligent that I just needed to get an I 20 and return to Cameroon for a student visa and then back to the U.S for school. When asked the school fee they said 24050$. I took my calculator and converted to CFA and it meant 12,025,000frs. CFA. When I asked if upon payment of the fees and studies upon graduation I could then open a barbershop. The admissions officer said I will need a residence document and requested I seek help from an immigration lawyer. When I contacted an immigration lawyer, he said I could seek assilium after studies and it will take several years if at all it will be granted or I get married to an American or better still come in as a foreign investor with prove of financial viability to invest 500.000$ and that I will pay 6% of the capital to be invested as taxes up front. I laughed and said if that was all the huddles I must go through just to open a barbershop in America then that was corruption. As if that was not enough. Bankers who got my email enquiring about cosmetology schools contacted me for school fee loans. I taught they were scamers and asked my uncle if there were scamers in the U.S too and he said there are scamers every where but that, If I searched for information about some schools, it could be genuine. While there, I found out about prices of some vehicles. When I returned to Cameroon, The companies and the schools aggressively kept on sending me messages and making attractive offers though one year later. From the above experience, I derived that the U.S business environment is far more competitive than that of Cameroon. That it is much easier for a Camroonian to do business and grow better with very little marketing efforts as compared to the U.S. That the few Cameroonians who succeed in any business specialty in the U.S do because of excessive hard work and will do better in Cameroon if they put in same. Thus my dear friends or parents who wants to send children abroad do or die. Support them to work hard here and they still make life better for them selves and the family. Those abroad dont pick money on street side. They work their Arsss as Americans will say. Some of our brothers and sisters had abandoned white cola jobs in at home for slavery abroad because of ignorance. Why will a lawyer in Cameroon prefer to serve at the pump in a fuel station abroad because his degree is not acceptable in the said country. My Diaspora brothers and sisters tell the truth to those back home to help them work hard where ever they are and God will bless their hands.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:46:39 +0000
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