Nantomah Joseph James is no doubt one of Africa’s success stories in America.
Since he migrated from Nigeria to the United States, the seasoned project management professional has racked up worthy achievements, including becoming a crack real estate investor and a leading business mentor for the black community.
Recounting his life’s journey, the man famously nicknamed The Black Mentor said: “I became a project management professional before 2008 and trained over 5, 000 professionals and bankers before considering moving to the United States. I had ventured into hard money lending, and with the help of some international associates, I was able to move to the United States.”
On how he started his life in America, he informed: “I had to go through the normal process of documentation. All I had access to was a library card. I took advantage of that and, for six months, read books of successful persons in the United States, and I found that what they all had in common was real estate. So I decided to go into real estate investments.”
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Just like any black man in America, he affirmed, “I had the challenges of fitting into the society and finding my feet as I had moved here with my family.”
He continued: “I had issues of peer pressure, people wanting me to be normal and do things the way they all did it. I had never been a 9-5 person but a businessman all my life. A lot of people did not understand why I was looking at setting up a business instead of doing a 9-5.”
In 2018, The Black Mentor was a campaign staff for the then-Republican governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker; presently, he is a national planning committee member for the current administration of Democratic governor Tony Evers. He spoke of the lessons of fairness and tolerance from his political experience that Nigerians can imbibe.
“Last year, in the 2018 elections the party, I campaigned and lost the elections in my states, but we accepted defeat without causing any havoc or problems. I hope that Nigerian politicians will learn from that,” The Black Mentor said.
