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In Zambia, 21-year-old entrepreneur\u00a0Njavwa Mutambo co-founded a logistics\u00a0startup with the help of the Tony Elumelu\u00a0Foundation and incubator BongoHive<\/p>\n
I kind of have a unique history, I like to believe. I was\u00a0born on Friday the 13th. My father passed away when\u00a0I was three and my mum when I was seven, so my\u00a0whole life I have lived knowing that I am here for a\u00a0greater purpose. I would always think to myself how I\u00a0could make my life better and make my parents proud\u00a0even though they can\u2019t see it. I was raised by my mother\u2019s\u00a0sister, who is a phenomenal woman. She gave me the\u00a0best things in life. But I always felt that thing, like no\u00a0matter how lovely, amazing she was [I] could always\u00a0feel the gap between her and my real mum.\u00a0I went to David Kaunda Technical High School, which\u00a0is in the top five schools in Zambia. It is number one,\u00a0but I am just trying to be modest. When I was getting\u00a0to 15, 16, 17, I became a rebel in my family. My mum \u2013 I
\ncall her my mum because she raised me, it is very important\u00a0\u2013 she did not know what to do with me because I\u00a0was always out clubbing, whatever. My grades took a\u00a0slump down and I found myself dropping out of school\u00a0in 11th grade. I started my first business at age 18. It\u00a0was a food delivery service. It kind of derailed me from\u00a0finishing my education, which I eventually did but it was\u00a0after a great deal of convincing by my parents.<\/p>\n
In that time, when I took a slight leave of absence, I\u00a0fell in love with business. I fell in love with selling electronics.\u00a0I found out that people were making so much\u00a0money buying stuff on eBay and bringing it to Zambia\u00a0and selling it for four to five times the price because of\u00a0ignorance. Wow! I can make money myself without my\u00a0parents? I love it. This is what I want to do.\u00a0Two weeks after I finished school I took a job working\u00a0in a supermarket and my boss was really young. And I\u00a0said, how is this possible? I want to be that guy. He really\u00a0moulded me, he gave me books to read. He told me that\u00a0education is not only in the confines of the school.\u00a0We launched Musanga Logistics in Lusaka three
\nmonths ago. We expect to perfect our platform so that\u00a0we can expand to other cities like Harare, Gaborone and\u00a0Johannesburg. Our first website was built for free by\u00a0our CTO. Our social media accounts were set up for free\u00a0by our marketing manager. And our accountant did\u00a0everything for free. These are people who just knew me\u00a0or were in the community and said I like what you are\u00a0doing and I would like to be part of the vision.\u00a0I am up at 3:50AM every morning, Monday to Sunday.\u00a0I am in the gym five days a week by 5AM, in the office\u00a0by 8AM and I leave at 8-9PM. During the time I am in\u00a0the office until the time I leave, there is the magic that\u00a0goes on between me and my computer.\u00a0Tony Elumelu said to me: \u201cAs long as you are friendly\u00a0with staff but firm on the alignment of vision\u2026\u201d That is\u00a0pretty much what I intend to do. Sometimes you blow\u00a0up, but I am aiming to be a more friendly but firm manager.\u00a0I am doing good on the firm and we are getting\u00a0there on the friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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