About Joel Kirabo
My name is Joel Kirabo. I'm not a financial expert, a life coach or a guru, and I haven't figured everything out. I'm considerably more ordinary than that, and I think that's exactly why we should talk.
I'm a third-generation immigrant in Uganda. My family came from Rwanda, and the question behind these books started there: what decides whether a family's future rests on luck, and what would it take to change that?
I'm a son, too, and my parents are entering the years when they need me present. Building something of my own without first making sure they're covered isn't ambition to me. So I needed a way to know, in actual numbers, when the people who depend on me are protected, and when I can go after the next thing I want.
I didn't find that map anywhere, so I spent years building one and checking it: every figure sourced, every method something you can do with a pen. From Survivor to Belonaire is the result. The same thinking runs through everything else I'm building, including a board game and a household finance app.
If something in the books helps you, or you think I've got something wrong, I'd like to hear it.
Short bio
Joel Kirabo is the author of From Survivor to Belonaire and the founder of the Belon ecosystem, a group of projects built on one idea: removing luck from the things a household's survival depends on. He is self-taught and is not a financial adviser. He lives in Kampala, Uganda, where his family settled after leaving Rwanda.