I grew up from when I was like two to six, my dad got a job with the CDC.
Dad is very smart man >> CDC, wow and that's like in
the forefront right now with everything >> Yes, so he doesn't work there anymore
but he did back when I was young kid and a man like he, just grew up from nothing.
Nigeria came from nothing, he always tells us a story.
Growing up that he had one underwear that he wore to school every day, and
he would have to wash it every day, he walked for miles to school.
But, the only thing that got him to where he is today was his education and
how hard he studied.
And I was a little difference between me and him is that,
I wasn't as, I was more into sports, and
that was I felt like that was my way of making something of myself.
You know what I mean? >> Yeah.
>> And he was all about education, in this world and
nothing without education is all the kind of things that he will tell us.
And I almost felt like the pressure that he put on us, for
me personally kind of pushed me away from that.
Is like know, I really not want to see what else is out there from me,
I really want to go do my own thing like I don't want anything to do with this but
man he worked he worked hard he works so hard and
that's the the that's something that he instilled in all four of us.
I have three other siblings, two sisters and one brother
>> Got it On the second,
my oldest sister is two years older than me, my brother sees after me then
five years my little sister came along >> Okay
>> So when I was
>> In Atlanta
>> Grew up in Atlanta till about
six >> Okay
>> And when I was about six we moved to to
Kenya, which is a whole career change for me.
This is something completely different and
it's just like one day we just helped him up and left.
>> Because he's from Kenya >> He's from Nigeria.
>> That's right. But yeah, he got some work with the United
nations at that time he moved to United nations and we moved to Kenya and
it was Nairobi, Kenya.
>> Wow, that's a freaking like culture shock It is.
It's like I came from Spain, Columbia, South Carolina and
that was a culture shock.
>> It's crazy but it's the exact same thing if it was but the exact same.
>> Yeah.
>> Where it's like how do you how are you gonna fit in?
Or are you gonna have friends here?
>> And you don't speak the language either?
>> No, I don't speak the language.
And that's another thing is our parents in to speak their native language to us which
is teeth they didn't speak that to us growing up either.
So unfortunately the only language I speak is English.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah.
So how did you like fit in?
[CROSSTALK] How did you function?
>> We went to an international school, which is,
people from all over the world went there.
So luckily it was a, the predominantly spoken language was English.
>> Okay >> So, It was very different.
But, after a while we settled in started making friends and, this became our home
till about three or four years later we moved to the neighboring country Uganda.
So [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] [LAUGH]
>> One day it's just like and
that's how it was.
It was one day it was just like we're moving again, and
the friends that I made their up to this day.
I haven't seen and I >> Were you close.
>> Yeah, we're close especially back then we you know,
it was it was different than like, we'd have drivers who would take us to and
from school because my dad would be up and he'd have to go to work and
he wouldn't really the opportunity to drive us to school.
So we have a driver who takes a school someone local or you catch a bus.
I think there was a time that I can't remember exactly where but
I think I was about ten years old at the time and my parents had split up and
my mom took my little sister moved back to Atlanta.
>> That had to be rough.
>> It was rough coz all I knew at that time was my parents been together.
>> Yeah. >> And it's kind of like what's gonna
happen now like, I'm I gonna see her?
Who we gonna live with.
>> Because I mean it's already rough when parents split up.
>> Yeah >> But now your sister is being taken.
It's a Wow.
>> She was a baby, baby.
I can't remember what she was but
I was ten I don't think she was even two yet.it was it was rough.