The Scam they sold to Africans

The scam they’ve sold to African immigrants continues to stare at us all. This ridiculous idea that you should grind like a slave in some foreign country for 30 years, retire at 66, and then… what? Move back home just in time for your arthritis medication and an early grave?

What kind of life is that?

Your prime years are RIGHT NOW. That window between 40-60 when you’ve still got energy, health, and enough time to actually enjoy your success? That’s your golden ticket. But most of you are wasting it—breaking your back abroad to build some monstrous mansion back home that you’ll barely live in. For what? To impress people who don’t pay your bills? To show off for relatives who’ll squabble over it the second you’re dead?

You don’t need a 10-bedroom palace to be happy. You need a smart, functional home—exactly like the one in this picture—that you can actually LIVE IN while you’re still young enough to enjoy it.

Many immigrants can build this in a year or 2 years but somehow, these people who live in single rooms want monstrous houses back home.

Because let’s be real: what’s the point of retiring at 66 if you’re too old to travel, too frail to eat your favourite foods, and too tired to enjoy the fruits of your labour? You’ll just be sitting in that big empty house, waiting for death while your kids—who’ve built their own lives abroad—visit you once a year out of obligation.

Housing eats 50-80% of most people’s income. If you own your home outright by 45, your cost of living PLUMMETS. No rent. No mortgage. Just freedom. Imagine what you could do with that extra cash—actual living instead of just surviving.

But no—most of you would rather:

•Waste a decade overbuilding some ridiculous mansion you don’t need

•Keep slaving abroad until your best years are gone

•Return home as an old, broken man who can’t even enjoy his own success

It’s madness.

The smart play is this:

1. Move back at 40-45—when you’ve still got energy and life left to live
2. Build something practical, not pretentious—a comfortable home, not a monument to your ego
3. Own it outright—eliminate your biggest expense
4. Actually LIVE—travel, explore, enjoy your family while you’re still healthy

Because nobody cares how big your house is when you’re dead. But YOU will care—deeply—if you wasted your best years just to die in a castle you barely got to enjoy.

Stop the nonsense. Build smart. Come home early. And for once in your life—PUT YOURSELF FIRST.

–Chris-Vincent Agyapong, A Lawyer, Hedonist, Contrarian, Atheist, Thinker, Writer, Minimalist, Polygamy Evangelist, Soft Life Ambassador & A Professional Truth Sayer