Rags to Riches.
A candid account of building enterprise from the ground up on African soil — the discipline, the reversals, the quiet decisions that compound. Written for the founder, the operator, and the reader who prefers substance to slogan.
A study in patient capital and long conviction.
Across chapters drawn from lived experience — real estate, alternative investments, the discipline of building through cycles — Michael sets down the frameworks that carried him from beginnings to portfolio. Not a memoir, not a manual. A record.
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Poverty is not a spiritual problem. It is a behavioral one.
In Nigeria, we are taught that poverty is a spiritual problem. My book, Rags to Riches; The African Way, argues that it is a behavioral one. I take you through five stages — Survival, Comfort, Luxury, Abundance, and Generational Wealth — and expose the landmines at every level.
Why do people who get money lose it? Why do the heirs of billionaires end up broke? I answer these questions with the naked honesty only an African can deliver.
This is not a get rich quick book. This is a get rich and stay rich manual for individuals of different ages and backgrounds.