Why Terence Creative Believes MrBeast Is Being Overcharged in Africa

Kenyan content creator Terence Creative has cast doubt on the cost of MrBeast's latest humanitarian project in Ghana, a village reported to have cost $10 million (about Ksh. 1.2 billion).

Terence counted the visible structures shown in MrBeast's video and ran his own cost estimate. His figure came in far below the reported price tag.

What MrBeast Built in Ghana

MrBeast released the video on 19 September 2026. It documents the construction of Abna Dakwa, a self-sustaining village in Ghana's Eastern Region built to support families whose children have been caught up in illegal labour on cocoa farms.

The build took eight months, following a year of planning.

The community includes a 10-classroom school for more than 300 pupils, plus 10 free homes for teachers who relocate to the area. A partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation will fund free daily meals for pupils over five years.

The project also features water towers supplying clean water directly to homes, a medical clinic, a marketplace, a farm and fish tanks for aquaculture. Engineers replaced the village's old three-foot drainage pipes with twin four-foot drains to protect the school from flooding.

Ten international creators, including Ghanaian YouTuber Wode Maya and Kenyan creator Duty Boy Stylish, joined the build, which was backed by the 1 Billion Followers Summit, the Varkey Foundation and Al Maktoum Global Initiatives. Abna Dakwa is the first of 11 cocoa-growing communities MrBeast plans to support through 2030, tied to his Feastables brand's campaign against child labour in West Africa.

"Somebody Is Conning Him"

Terence said he suspects the people running MrBeast's African projects may be misleading him on costs. Counting the structures shown in the video, he put the number at around a dozen buildings.

"These structures that I'm seeing here, unless there is something that I don't know, cannot cost Ksh 1.2 billion. Somebody is conning him."

He then questioned who might be responsible for the gap between his estimate and the reported figure, and what else that money could achieve on the continent.

He went further, suggesting people handling MrBeast's African projects may be inflating costs.

"Let's stop conning this guy."

MrBeast has faced scrutiny over his African philanthropy before, including criticism in April 2025 after opening a surgical center in Ghana for former child slaves.