on the ground and proposing from across the continent, the french doesn't matter to you. in 60 minutes on dw, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner chair hotspot for food, chair and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off we go. it's time for another informative edition of the 77 percent show. this is where the continental young people, those of us who love afro beats animal piano. this is where we love to meet, but we don't just talk about music because there is so much more happening across the continent. i am mike lottie, and i am glad to have you here. with

covered up in today's program, we travel to northern cyprus and mike met 4 african students, but with many obstacles. then we take a look at why many africans are parked in the box and move in a broad laser. we focused on a guardian entrepreneur who came home from abroad to start a game change in p r. company. migration is important, and i swore this as to new ideas, skills and resources. but what's more important is my greet him safely. unfortunately, in 2021, a lot more than 1000 africans died, attempting to reach spain, scrub canaria, island box up modality. kara was lucky to survive that trip, but he wants more people to pay attention to the risk less dive into his story. the

last few years have been a struggle for my de la to cut the young molly and dreams of boxing and the lumpy games. but it's a miracle he's still alive at all. modeling, toughest opponent wasn't in the ring, but it see. he was still in my know, when he boarded the fishing boat in montagnier to embark on an odyssey towards the kennedy island. what was the last day? i was to the next period and just had no strength left. i was so scared all the time. but when you find yourself in such an extreme situation, you eventually lose. if i also learned a lot about that for boxing, you have to go to your limits and overcome the fears. otherwise, your country nor medulla finally reached the coast of spain. here at the small port on green canada, even today there are still remains of the refugee both since medulla arrived here more than 7 years ago. the number of migrants using this route has risen rapidly.

and so has a number of those who didn't survive the crossing. everyone is while the weight of the risk says medulla, but they're willing to take it for the sake of their families. 2000 kilometers away on the other side of the c medulla family follows his every move in spain, half of molly, and live in poverty. the condemning in various political crisis have only made the situation was from school fees to the ingredients for lunch. the money that marcella painstaking the states together through boxing and kitchen jobs all goes towards taking care of his family. but mom for us, it is necessary for survival. he sent out to relieve us of our suffering. madonna's journey has brought a lot of good to the family. we know he worked very hard to follow and we know he doesn't have it easy where he is right now. when i'm on the not far from the family's house is one of the macos by stations. every day young molly and set out

from here to seek your fortune in europe like my de la some even remember him from around the neighbourhood. i don't know yet. we've heard of madonna, but he's one of us, but we follow his movements and everything he does. he's doing a great job. one day we want to be like, can i don't, i would, but i mean, i don't, i'm a guy. i got, i went ahead and madonna has mixed feelings about this. he knows that many of the young migrants will not survive the journey. and even if they do manage to make it to the island, most struggle to meet the high expectations of the family medulla gives a new come as tips to help them find a way around the island. he knows they don't have the same opportunities that he had just a few years ago. the island is now overwhelmed with a huge number of arrival on top of this. they also need to contend with the pin demick and the feel of the war. and he can nomic problems in europe, and i was lucky,

but then there was hardly any under migraines. i was able to do an apprenticeship and intention and finding a job was also much easier. but the last few years here have turned into a crisis. there are no longer 2000 migrants coming here every year, but tens of thousands. that's just too many. but the situation is also increasingly hopeless in his homeland says mandala. he's worried that the spain c rescue service will be very busy in the coming months. unfortunately, because of the limited legal routes to migration stories like my dallas is very common and he is a part of a large extra dose of young africans on the continent. some took the risk, he boiled rice, we've just seen, while others look for education and new skills. but what's certain is that in recent years, more young africans are willing to travel abroad. so was pushing them out of their

homes, into distant lamps. more and more young africans are packing their bags and moving abroad as political instability and follow out from the cove at 19 pandemic take its toll. across the continent, a good portion of africa's youth are evidently had you met death elsewhere. according to the african eve survey, 2022 from south africa's incubate family foundation. only 32 percent of the 4500 young people into you are optimistic about a prospect. a drop of 11 percent since the last survey in 2020. in fact, only responded and thing garner had to wonder thought that countries were moving in the right direction. more than half those surveys are considering moving to another country in the next 3 years. as a way to secure employment and education opportunities. this generation of young africans are more focused on their personal and entrepreneurial ambitions than their parents were actually 2 thirds believe they have better prospects than their

parents. but they're like of access to capital to realize their dreams is that healing their desire to move abroad. about 60 percent of africa population is under $25.00. but right now there simply aren't enough universities on the continent to cater to this growing demographics. ambition. grants also need to contend with a frustrating paradox. while africa has a shortage of skilled workers in areas like technology, engineering, and health, skilled young africans remain under employed. many young africans head to europe, north america, and china, to try and secure their features. the irony of africa is that while its productive population most abroad, no remittances sent home by these people helped to develop a lot of these countries. but life overseas often comes with discrimination and exclusion. that is settling the story of this small island here in the mediterranean. non cypress has recently become

a harp for african students. many of them travel here because tuition fees are cheap and a standard of education is comparable to some of the big european institutions. in austria, debate, i travel to left kotia or us, some would call it nick was caea to talk to students about some of the challenges they face. india adopt at home. no us you. what does to beat i needed to remember that lot in cyprus is had it facto state, only recognized by turkey. this 27 percent is in la kotia, in the northern part of cyprus. now, over the last 12 years, this part of the island has seen an explosion in universities. many students come here to get education because it's affordable, and the universities are great. but the challenges, and that is what this conversation is gonna be about today. my name is mike lety

and we're going to delve right into the conversation. i'm gonna start with brutus. um, talk to me about some of their disadvantages and challenges that you encounter. the issue of rent. the issue of rent actually has been one of the key issue that many times i've encountered most especially i've been over a year to well if and then i haven't signed a contract. i mean, i me, hold on here and clarify this for us. so he lived in the apartment for about a year year, and he hung one year more than a year, and you haven't signed a contract. yes. and then all of a sudden, to my other mas abbas few days ago, he met me on the roadside to tell me that there's an increment in the rent. so actually, why why's it does on equipment? there's no notification pine. notice what are you do on a house or making you to carry out the equipment and nothing said to me. so actually i feel like i have been spotted. i feel that much in the last,

in the smell of the word, i'm going to put a general question to you both. you, brutus enter nice. how is accommodation like for you am as international students, when others change as things are seen, him alive is here. and you will find a place that you like. so, and you wish out of the asian in that person would sexy and say no african the i have those messages may be hundreds of them in a phone with old on post, stop riding, thus, racism right. docile racism sounds like right? definitely settlement. okay. and what was your experience here? as i gather she was say, you won an apartment, you put it out there, give interest into it. and then to tell you, i don't want black or the one block into this apartment. now, this is the experience of the students, but the problems begin even before they get jolla on to the island. and this,

there's a peculiar system. i'm that some of the invest is used to recruit students on to this island in mono luxury is a ph. d student. and he's been researching this and many of the other issues that affect many of the international students. and so emmanuel explained to us day a gen system used to recruit this am students. i mean basically, um you could say it's a, it's a criminal system to be honest. i'm criminal in the sense that i'm to do a mislead student. in fact, we did a study recently and 50 percent of students. he said they were misled by your agents. typically what was sort of misrepresentation. would they agents give to the students in some sim cases, right on the auto, the southern side. you come into cyprus, not specifically the northern part of cyprus or the tyranny, see if you want to refer to it the way that is not recognized. and of course you want as a question with technology, how come some students are not aware of this? and the question is something we have poor sometimes to agents because we know this

agents as well. some of them are students and the say, well, we contact parents and so the parents will have time to want, you know, check for this information to contact the parents. the parents are inch of fly tickets and you know everything with the agents. but of course there's also different kinds of information or disinformation or misleading information such as well, if you come year, you can get jobs, you can get scholarships. but the reality is, when the students who come here it is a complete different story, it is a nightmare which cannot be described in words. he can only be experienced capital . i'm gonna push you right there. and then come back to you brutus. when you come in here as a student, ah, did you expect that you are going to be able to do some student job? of course i do sped, that. where were you able to do this? no. her, i'm yet to realize that these were some of the information given to me by my agent . but since i came, i haven't done anything like a popped on java. shouldn't jar?

i'm come to you. facilitate philosophy is a human rights lawyer. how often do students issues come to your table? yeah, we, we hear about such cases. i especially with our partner institution, voice, cypress, and then in my institution, human rights plaid from him, mostly focused on human trafficking cases, that international students, especially young african girls, are exposed to. so we see a lot of cases where young african girls are being deceived and recruited here by traffickers and later forced into sex work. and they are locked in private apartments most of the time. and we see that the student resides being abused by the authorities. so they come here with a student visa, but they cannot attend to the last is because the traffic has locked them in private apartments. and basically they have no freedom of movement. and we see that the authorities do not monitor the student. so where are they? what are they doing and might, don't they go to the, you know, i said, i have reliable information as well to some of the university in flip the numbers

of active students. so it's so to make it seem as though the majority of the students are actually in cross. what's the benefit in inflating the number of students that you have? i mean it's, it's in terms of attractiveness. if you have more students on the, are more active than immense, your university is probably doing something that is good. so it's kind of like a selling point. i think the universities are even perpetrating the system by not regulating the agent at all. if i, even in college, in this traffic, in the many of the agents a villain, i involved because irrespective of all of those, you know, i'm stupid politics. these are you students, they are registered in your universities. you have a fiduciary duty towards the students exactly. to point and what responsibility, duties, invest is better. well basically the low is not is absence in that regard. so as a manual highlighted, i agree with him that the major responsibility lies with the most is, but also there is a high responsibility on behalf of the executive body is so the minister is at because they often fail to monitor how this universities operate. and they are the

ones giving the permission for new wants to be established. and i also want you to sound probably get some advice to young students, especially girls. yeah, i will. i would like to tell everyone to be careful am and the world really good research before they're being brought here and to get in contact with their university is not to trust on personal agencies, especially the people that they made online, especially through instagram, for instance. we've seen many fake profiles deceiving young girls, and if they're in trouble, they need to actually access us or, or the police. so i would advise them to contact the human race platform. we have a hotline as well. and so they can access to us and we will provide legally, we will be there. all right, great. now denise, would you recommend modern suppose to people who want to come here and study on i will said no because of some of the issues are face year but yes for the level of

education. now we obtaining here, our new i want to add up to will, philly's will see a lot of times people just get people from the internet and just pack the bags and come i at sometimes i'm baffled in a way that in this internet a, somebody can i just research where you go into, even if your parents were the one thou would count, contact that ever international student i answer not. cypress has an internet phone . so i think students, i want to come year yes, is a good place with some of the best universities around put through your research. if you don't have any form of support, i can tell anybody do not come to not in cyprus. so asked, she said, do your research before you come and also be aware that not in cyprus is different from the republic of cyprus. and thanks also to that incredible panel of young people who decided to share your

stories with us. and also realize other problems that those students fees go beyond what is acceptable. if you want to hear some of the initiatives that are going to make life better for african students, go to our youtube channel. and there you can watch a longer version of this to beat jaron. all of those comments and emotions. i wonder if it's worth making genies such as these be asked on our facebook page and you on said o much um it says that corruption and outside influence makes it very hard for us to create a conducive environment for the youth to see all african countries might have strong leaders like poker guy, me offer wanda and the news. i'm young. president huck i india hatch. lemme to be able to move our continent forward and prosper. harry angora says immigration is a normal phenomenon. others from europe and the u. s. they travel to look for opportunities

in africa. so why can't africans travel to these places? and we've got one last one from steph, n e on our facebook page. it says i left the continent 5 years ago, and i realized that a lot has changed about me. i've learned how to rule of law has been upheld by lead us as citizens to fight crime. i'll encourage young people to take up the challenge by traveling out of the continent to pursue education and training. thank you all for your comments. you can also share yours with us on our facebook page, the w africa. so find is sure we have talk about young africans who want to leave the continent, but there is a growing number who are retention initiatives like honest, your return and back to africa movement and courage, africans and das poorer to come home to the continent and contribute to its development francisco, who pom want that to contribute? that is why after studying in the u. k,

she decided to move back home to ghana and see what she created. he, i've had moments where my identity is inertial question. people don't really know it for you, and i think that's a challenge other people, but it can affect you when you're trying to navigate in the world and, and people keep putting you boxes and many years francisco, and i'm based in a crowd garner. damn joe, the creative agency set it up in 2015. and it's the main goal is we need to provide local locally source solutions creative solutions efficiency to arrange of international brand, entering the market. we understand what international brand once and want to achieve on the continent. he positioned ourselves as that bridge between local markets and international agencies and in together. so they can enter the african

market in a way that really speaks to their brand. and they don't fall into the same tracks and the same mistake that they make in terms of just being sometimes completely tune deaths. we have worked with meta, we've worked with algebra. we've worked with youtube. and recently we've added the nfl to that list. the nfl have over 100 plays in the nfl that african or african descent but had never really engaged with the continent in a way that they now want to do. so i went to the u. k. went to 17 and i got into university. and i did so sheila g and policy in university, and it was quite a culture shock being in the u. k. and one of the biggest things to me that was a shock was being called black, which was very odd and growing up in a mixed re household. it wasn't really something that i ever defined myself by.

once i finished my masters, i always knew that i was going to go back to i think it was just a matter of time. and so a summer of trying to get work. i thought i can't keep living like this. i had my ticket, i jump on that please come back. december 2011. made my way back to to one of the biggest things is as a business, you know, really have access to credit in the way that other in other countries. credit is sort of set up, so everything is good strapped and everything is you've got to find the cash and some way to make it what over the next 10 years, i really one jammed up to cement it's position as that home room agency across the continent and that knows the, the continent and that is really guiding brands to enter the market. because

ultimately it's our market and we know you know the things about that and give that inspiration to other agencies do the same thing. i think for me, if you're going to move back to the continent, understand why you're coming. be open to what it has to teach. you do come with preconceived notions of what it should be or how people should think or how people or how things should be, because it's a different language. you have to learn a different language to get the things that you want. i'm glad that francis is doing wash, laughs, and is successful at it. another person who is successful are what a do aesthetic what he is. an actor model and filmmaker, if you are normally would fall like me, you would know him as are the tiger in their netflix drama, king of boys there were 10 of the king. he says would ask his formula for success.

ah, outside of the king of worst mcdonald's kink was definitely it was a turning point. so before in the the huge publicity came from clink with boys most of the challenges that i had were want people trying to pull you down or to push doubting you because you have to have your da city to do what they don't. my name is to the quincy i'm an outdoor model and producer. feel my car or on media personality for my local critic to an expression according to modeling for modeling. a transition to pollution. presenting presented. i transition to access in

the enough though, but behind the scenes as a producer thing, but to active. so outside the human been that transition through us was acting, was concerned. shall i show boiling? because ever since we moved, i met out to the other producer. she was one of the key actors on one of her shoes or produce for on one of the biggest on. so what you call, it's not letting it talks in africa, grew bone. and then there were several times that i came with it and acted with heart minimum blank unless you village just b. viani could in fact because she saw my friends, she knew that i hadn't had a game plan like i was going somewhere with this. often i asked you in canada, i would see took rewards thought out of her mind 1st because

it goes, oh, you are chasing. if with combs, i promise you this fine fashion with her own devil, it is as far as it is recruited, these evils group behind the screen find partial puzzle will lead you up where you're supposed to be fine, passion in whatever you do. thanks king. for those wise weights and that advice applies to where i live on the continent or you live abroad. the passionate about whatever you do. that said for this week, head us up on facebook, instagram and youtube, if you like today. sure. also you conducting an e mail at 77 at dw dot com. i leave you with this conscious tune from black roster . and jar amber. he says, and this song,

africa belongs to us. let's unite and embrace one to reflect on the lyrics and until next time. thanks for what a ah, with

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