23/04/2026
LEADERSHIP IS SEEING VALUE WHERE OTHERS SEE GARBAGE 🍌♻️
Every morning in Buea’s markets, I watch spoiled bananas get dumped by the roadside.
To most people, it’s waste.
To me, it’s fertilizer that could feed 3 farms.
It’s clean cooking gas that could replace firewood for a family.
It’s flour that could help a bakery fight malnutrition.
Banana peels are 40% potassium. They’re packed with pectin for bio-plastics. They ferment into bio-gas.
But we throw them away because “that’s how it’s always been done.
Leadership isn’t about having a big budget or a fancy title.
It’s about asking: What problem am I willing to walk past?
So I’m starting small. This month: 50kg of peels to organic fertilizer trial with 3 farms in Muea. If it works, we scale. If it fails, we learn.
Because communities don’t change when perfect solutions arrive.
They change when ordinary people refuse to accept “waste” as the final answer.
What’s the “banana peel” in your community — the problem everyone ignores but could create wealth?🌍