for the bus, how they can also go terribly. watch it now on you to be up to date. don't miss our highlight. the d w program online. d w dot com highlight hello and welcome to your favorites youth magazine show that 77 percent. and this edition was shining, the sport light on the african students caught up by the russian attacks in ukraine . i am your host, eddie mike, a junior, and i'm so excited what's coming up now before russia attacked ukraine? was he popular destination for african students? my own cousin was that said i had occasion lucky for her. she finished her program . and with that, the guy before the war begun, but on the show to day we have someone who was forced to flee the war,

will find out more about his journey and struggle to catch up with his studies. but that's not all we have for you. we meet my parents didn't allow eli, i'll do my g for making a new life for himself in the netherlands. lee and the wolf would also look at the story or at lee mailbox. fluid tends to help young people, sick stop you think you got move me thought africa, great dancer, breaking down why? before we get into reg, dancing, let's talk about broken dreams. that's how some africans felt when the education was cut short due to the war in ukraine. calling xavier was one of them. the young, my jaden, is now trying to get his future back on track. let's check out his story. ah,

do anything you could just lay dead and smoke. i'm been the only thing you could hear with my phones. been gunshot some intervals, you see soldiers stop the trains and then come in search. it was really, really hard to find. hi, my name is collins. i'm 21 and i'm from nigeria. i was born in legal group in vegas till high school and i moved to by don't in one area. i mean that's like really hard in schools to get in the university of buttons to study law actually when they're kind of like not enough for me. so i had to like try and look for something outside the country else when i got my way to get the ukraine. collins, we're studying international law at hard keep national university of ukraine. in simba, can you send me one my, my hope was going from green to restart,

not to continue anything just to restart a fresh new life for me. oh, oh, it's one morning. and then my roommate tops me and just like, did you hear? like hear what then he like those bombing. i mean i would like to stop drinking because the night before will joking about he was the last one games. funny until it was funny. we'll like trying to come now about it until we had 71 and then with a week so nobody could see like, it was a joke anymore. and then it would sort of panicking big time. i called my guardian of some sort. and it was like, nothing is going to happen is just this just some blasts, but go out, get some food stuck of your free 10 stain doors. and then i went out and i saw everybody on the streets punching. everybody was literally trying to like got all

the stores to buckled for the could. people were like in frank withdrawal money to will back in your bags, putting them inside of woodson, like driving off. harkey was heavily hit when the war began. collin school was also bump with a group of either foreign students, collins decided to leave you claim they had to force the way onto the train after authority. stop them. ah collins arrived in berlin a month later with just a few belongings. he has been staying with the volunteer host until he finds a permanent place in a i mean

i lost everything right, but i lay things green. i didn't stay that long, but i had kind of had a life like aspiring to build, i had a life i was already building on and then the war comes and then everything is broken down. i left the interior right to restart and then it's kind of not fair when you're restart turns to an end. and then you have to mean we start again from the beginning and the same when you start. and again, you're starting actually like with nothing but basically nothing against the journey with basically nothing backpack, shirt, trousers, shoes. so it really, i would say, i would say it's, it,

it put a hold of some sort in my life on the life of every other person who is in the situations who's calling hopes to get into a university in germany. but for now, he is learning german and working at a retail store. i use that i really loud found really so i didn't sound the cheat on me before i started having like therapy sessions, i used to like have bad insomnia. and when i did sleep, i had the crazy night about from that i think i'm getting been around. sounds like it's been a very difficult journey for collins, i guess what collins is right here with us in the studio item collins. but

now we talk more about his current situation and his future plans in just a moment. i fast show you wondering why so many african students chose to study. and ukraine is what we put together for you. around 80000 foreign students from a 158 countries studied in the ukraine before the war began. on february 24th 2022, nearly a quarter of the students while from africa. rural cons make up the biggest group. 8000 students. second largest group from nigeria with 4000 students, followed by egypt with 3500. she didn't increase effort in enrolling international students. deep back to the soviet era, the ukranian government invested heavily in higher education in a deliberate attempt to attract students from new new independent african country. today, many young african c ukrainian universities as

a gateway to the european job market. biggest rockets is it to get visas, living costs, and the high acceptance of degrees from ukraine and the teeth were white. but when russia invaded ukraine at the beginning of 2020, to mocking the largest conventional military attacks in world war 2, thousands of africans, students were to see exactly how many students remain. ukraine remains unclear, the africans who left and now spread across europe. but they often don't receive the same treatment as ukrainian national, even though they're cleaning the same war. now they're facing obstacles as the feet of the education hangs in the balance. now, yes, i am area calling xavier is with me in the studio. thanks again for joining us balance. thank you. i mean, we've seen and heard a little bit of the challenges that you went through back to tell us, give us a bit of an idea what your current situation is. well, station is getting better,

but like it feel us tricky as always, you know, gemini rock received a long time and an expert goodness when i go like something on the immigration where i have like 2 months to present why i can go back to my country and something like that, so like it's still, i'm still in the regular city say no. oh, so if you're unable to put a good defense of why you want to remain here, then why i don't know. yeah. understand. i'm sure you're sure. i mean, we're going to dig a bit more into that and i make so you decided to go home or not. you know, you know, compared to other nigerians that you know back them. i'm assuming you've been in touch with your family back at home. did he understand the accepted tuition you're in and i wouldn't say so own and say that not up interest. why don't you know works what's, what you go into. i mean the, you know, the regular someone i was going to brought. there is nothing else like there's

nothing else disturbing. he just knew the person that brought that up. when we know will happen, it's a burden while you go through it and i think it's not even my please let them know . i think really why i mean they do no. russia talk to you. yeah. they know. go and find out even if you're doing okay. oh no. oh yeah. they know i'm doing okay. okay . i mean, i've got a place to stay now and i can feed myself and yeah, i think us the thing that mothers the most so here, so i don't think they don't need to know about the whole german broker. so that's interesting. now i did see earlier, we're going to find out soon your, your plan if somehow things don't go smoothly. yeah. if you want to go back home on us, we will not thought because we will talk soon about them whenever a tenant home is an option. but let's fast here from another nigerian well hourly. i'll do my g e study medicine in ukraine, not escaping the rash and strikes. he's now building a new life for himself in the netherlands. since russia invaded ukraine and

february millions have left the country among them leisure, only after magic. he remembers the fear. i felt the war was just going to be foot soldiers and tanks. i didn't know nothing was gonna come from you know, air strikes on all that. so the thing that i really really got miscarried, like really, really skate was the strike. so all i, while i decided to flip, so we converged at the city center in the pool 9 am. then we go 3 boss, the bus, the destination of the bus was supposed to because whose garage they from was good to ship. nice dnd in you know, yes, keep the country for was now continued from chevy. misty to was, grew from was go to 1000. zone is the border with ukraine and hungry. after sony, we'd go to hungary and i have friends in germany, some in netherlands, and then they were telling me, oh, germany's and netherland is will because of my own person. jimmy was never an option near the land. was it?

hoola is one of 20000 african students who studied in ukraine. i saw you can as a stepping stone from ok. finish your studies. now you have a said if get from ukraine, you can choose to go back to your corn. she, you can choose to, maybe you want to go right, u. s. m, in the medical license, examine us or you go to canada or somewhere else like ukraine was like a stepping point to, you know, pi votes you into that. would you want to be paula? know, lives in the refugee shelter and alteration in the netherlands. so why do i want to go back to nigeria like i don't have any reason to do, but there's no reason there's nothing for me there. but if, if there was something for me to do, i wouldn't even be in ukraine in the 1st place. and this is not just me, this is, this is average nigeria and you'd store kim, we look at the countries not really, really conducive. forced to even steal or want to go back. he has since found a new group of friends when, when, when we go here, when i met people,

we liked people though it in my condition, even worse. i mean we're running from ukraine together. so it only makes sense that people that they see like maint attracts right. and then people are you experiencing the same thing? adapting moment is the is easier for you to connect. hello al is next step is registering at a university and another. i want to get my status here legalized 1st, unless you can let me know. we'll keep this is my stay here. this is my state i. so from there i can look towards some universities. i've been doing that. he wants to continue his medical studies, but also hopes to follow his dream of becoming an actor. yeah, i believe something good is coming very, very soon. and yeah, can we headed for goodness, i'm headed for, you know, beautiful achievement and beautiful. i've had. 2 ah,

very interesting story. we're back in the studio with collins xavion out, and i, nigeria, government officially, you know, gave a statement the see, the a welcoming all and i do and stuff let the war right. that they're gonna put you back in school. you know, back or but you're, you just have to accept to go. you decided not to go. why is nigeria not an option for you? why is it is one thing for a government select. so the citizens to come back and then it's another thing for them to tell them to come back and then give them a path for them to continue on. right? so like if you're telling students upon back to major award, actually there's been ones of university strike, lex miss willis, since the war started or universal federal university in driving on stripe. that is one. so students go on, go to school to economy is getting worse by day, even with the, with the, with the war happening. it's not just affecting just ukraine is also like, has

a global impact, right? it has a good land price with russia and ukraine and even africa. so the, the things keep going up and it's was a fair enough point. but i mean, the economies is bad everywhere. i mean, you feeling it here in germany. you're not in school anyway. so sound would feel why wouldn't you want to be in the comfort of your home with your family surrounded by love, eating the food that you like. and why would you just want to remain here hustling? in fact, so when surrounded by love doesn't really it doesn't really. yeah, exactly. he doesn't be there on it. and put food in the amount of a people living in one house. right. so like, i feel i feel me going back is just going to be like an extra bird. i when see cream to study, right. i went to like i, she something going back with actually what i went to do doesn't make sense to me. so why do it? okay, yeah, she could also avoid houses to try something else. okay,

new. okay. i wish we had all the time to dig into all the questions that i have, but i think we'll leave it here by letting you give a message to the young guy for consol, particularly those that fled the war and ukraine and maybe hearing from someone like you officially, 1st thing you know, wow, what is your message to them right now? you? i think let's, let's think you look into this kind of and this way and it seems like everything is actually on shore. everything is totally out of out of line. but if you, if you can just look for something, something that you feel like would, would give you that hope or revitalize your like energy to like, keep going on. restarting is never easy, but you've got to do it. i mean, and to everybody who like explained the way, i like part of the, like really few who have expend book upon them. it under war at the same time. not

me to look and see if i knew surviving. so why not just keep going, you know, thank very much calling for that, and i wish you the best obviously, and how things go that it's a long wait, but i hope things turn out good for you. thank you. wow. some people decide to remain abroad. others return home like at lien alba. she left thoroughly on to the u. k. i. the age of 17. i stay in the u. k. was prolonged by the civil war in her home country, but eventually she returned home and is using her new found skills to help by young people jumpstart the careers. as much as you know, we have major gaps and it would be nice for everybody to come home and filling those gaps and everything. some people actually create more value from being out there. everybody doesn't need to come home and live at home.

i'm i'm, i'm the managing director of job search job search is a human resources fan. so we do recruit men skills development and just general human resources management services. i'm so employee is i was wanting free town. so at 17 i left home and went to the u. k. when i left i thought i was going for a year now to do my fema and i'll be back. but unfortunately, the war prolonged my day and i was there for 7 and a half years. i learned a lot. it was a good experience to me. it made me grow up. you need me see things differently. but i also found studying quite difficult because i just couldn't picture the, the environment they were talking about. when i told my parents that i was moving back, my dad didn't want me to come back before completing my studies. but i promised him

that i would complete my studies, but i needed to come back fast, mentally. really. i needed to be out in the okay. i needed to be here. when i was moving back, i had to my tv to my mom and she said it should my aunt and be away from accounting firms accounting, dropping my tv. oh. so i have that in mind. you know, when i'm back and thought about how i could help other people who wanted to come back to, you know, find the jobs. my friend had, the website's called. org. and i used to look through the newspapers and post the job ads from the newspaper onto the website. so some people would send it to me . could you please print this and send it off for me? so when i come home in the evening and send off the application, so that's how you started me to my vision for job search is for us to be the,

the go to win one, you require challenge. but then on the job seeker side, when the looking for jobs or when they're trying to acquire skills in order for them to get the right job. i want job such to be the place that the the best advice that i have received is to me to slow down and recognize stance icons do everything that i want to do. my advice to people moving back would be come with an open mind. come with and i think you'd have to learn right. but then also to teach for me, i'd like everybody to have a connection. i'd like them to have their children have connections. i don't want them to lose africa. and when you make sure you, you do things for your kids love the police right. don't complain too much about

power and the want and all of that. don't get the kids into that zone. just enjoy and get them to enjoy. so they want to come back, but then let them also see their issues that they want to help fix as well in the future. do it just have a nice balance. yeah, i really like the whole thing about balance, right? very good advice fast he gave there. so much complain sometimes. let's let the people buckle not feel like all hell this lose out there. so yeah, i hope you also got that advice. now let's move to quite a different topic. how many talents can you boast off? i can sing and tell stories, but that's about it. but i would never rob showed up with that africa as couldn't a paul. she's a dancer, cleo graph, d, g and as soon to be olympic athlete. this all try to leonard woman is reason the

bar for artist an act leads in her home country. she gave us a glimpse into a day in the life of horizon, saw an emotional, practical thing. once i did my job and living. on the other hand, it's the thing that keeps me saying it's a thing that allows me to be creative. to be myself, to concentrate challenge myself. dancer, choreographer i d, g and olympic athlete, courtney, paul's list of talents are hard to feed into the schedule. it's actually surprising how much she gets done in a day. fiancee is her biggest supporter. i've known my partner for over 10 years. we just took another different setting games a couple months ago. it's quite a new house. i'm like in the happy space. it will be as good i got into dancing around 11 or 12 years old. i ton. i have been a generic doctor many years. so i finally found like something that was

a combination of skills to get up. and we just guys do like all these cool thing that goes with a good and, and i was like, what about the back look like, i don't know if those are the backs. and that's why it's like minneapolis exercising takes up a big chunk of courtney's day, especially as she gives up to represent her traficant idea takes for i have to be serious stops throughout the year to employees to qualify for the olympics. last year was our 1st run. i came 1st on the, on the continent under the female. so i'm annoyed with many of the other countries have facilities in place have uniforms of coaches, assistant coaches program. and we kind of was fighting along everything with the breaking seen. it's changing the mill versus female in terms of numbers here. it's growing. for the 1st time we just had a female genitalia african final you know,

a previous need was to go at the time. courtney is also on track to reach new heights in south africa's music industry. a latest really has and half south africa for a wide nomination for date of the year. i a for this is where my career not being able to get on stage the know that going through your body. the moment you get the 1st button and everything is suddenly like disappears. you know, it's, it's really like, you know, of its own without any local success stories to inspire her career 1st caught me in forging her only ahead. and he's setting the bar incredibly high for brake them for across south africa. being a female in the space. it gets tricky. the system wasn't set up to me in any way, so you constantly forcing your foot through a draw and it wasn't made with you in mind. but i think the harder you push through

it, you able to see that actually better than a lot of the guys that shouldn't be waiting for permission to somebody to open a door for mail to tell me it's okay to be there. i need to be okay. with you know what? she's right in life, you have to push for what you want. don't just wait for it to be handed to you. i can't wait to see have brig dancing audio olympics, fingers crossfire. now i hope you enjoyed ever bits of the issue, because i definitely did that. it's time to wrap it all up. let's keep the conversation going on facebook, instagram or youtube. you can also email us at 77 at d, w dot com. now will play you out of the show where they track titled africa, one of a kind. i angelica quito, featuring list that easy and beneath kate, under the next time, bye for now with

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