Prosperity for Africa foundation to mentor business in leadership
Prosperity for Africa foundation will mentor business in leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa, says founder of the foundation, Mr.Joseph James Nantomah
The Foundation was formally launched in California, United State of America in 2019 by Mr.Joseph James Nantomah
According to Nantomah, ‘as a life coach and mentor, I believe business is a universal language. Most people don’t succeed in business because they don’t have a mentor to learn from. To succeed, you have to make up your mind, take corresponding actions, get a mentor to guide you and take massive risks and take actions.’
To underscore his philanthropy, Nantomah recalls: ‘In 2018 when I met the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, he sold me the American Dream. He said to me, “the American Dream is for people to come here, work hard and always give back”. This made me set up Prosperity of Africa, a non-profit, in 2019 and during the pandemic we fed 25,000 Africans.’
Speaking about his motivations in his early days on US soil, Nantomah revealed: ‘I had one thing working for me, which was my mindset. I had to work on my mind always and that made all the difference for me. I had issues of peer pressure, people wanting me to be normal and do things the way they all did it. I had never been a 9 – 5 person but, as a businessman my whole life, a lot of people did not understand my reason for looking at setting up a business instead of doing a 9-5. I hope people can learn from my experience.’
