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before russia attacked you cream was a popular destination for african students. my own cousin was there to fab. i had occasion lucky for her. she finished her program and we tend to gone before the war begun. but on the show today we have someone who was forced to flee the war. will find out more about his jenny and struggle to catch up with his studies. but that's not all. we have for you, we meet nigerian students will now ali abdul mcgee was making a new life for himself in the netherlands to flee in the walk. through it all to look at the story of adlene alba flu returned to sell you and to help young people pick stuff. and you think you got moves neatly south africa and great dance, and d jake breaking down. before we get into break 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 good? just like dead and smoke, i've been the only thing you could hear with my bon sounds and gunshot from intervals, you see soldiers stop the trains and then come in and search. it was really easy to find. hi, my name is collins. i'm 21 and i'm from nigeria. i was born in legal group in vegas. feel like high school and i moved to you by don't in one area. i mean that's like really hard schools to get in. the university of, if i don't to study law, actually we're like, they're kind of like not enough for me. so i had to like try to look for something

outside the country. else when i got my way to get the ukraine. collins were studying international law at hard keep national university of ukraine in them by 2021 my. my hope was going to green to restart. not to continue anything just to restart a fresh new life for me. oh, oh. oh, it was in the morning when sleeping and then my roommate tops me and just like, did you hear like hear what he like those bombing any i was like sub joking because the night before will joking about he was the last one games funny until it was funny, will like trying to calm down about it until the head, 2nd one and then with a week 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. then it was like, nothing is going to happen. it's just, there's just some blasts, but go outs, get some food stuck of your feet and stained doors. and then i went out and i saw everybody on the street punting. everybody was literally trying to like go to all the stores to buckled food. it could be like i'm trying to withdraw money to will. i can get bags, putting them inside like driving off. harkey was heavily hit when the war began. collin school was also bump with a group of other foreign students, collins decided to leave you clean. they had to force their way onto the train after authority stopped them. ah, collins arrived in berlin a month later with just

a few belongings. he has been staying with volunteer host until he finds a permanent place in a i mean i lost everything right, but i like things green. i didn't stay that long, but i had kind of her 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 restart, turns to an end. and then you have to mean restart again from the beginning and the

same when you start. and again, you're starting actually like with nothing like basically nothing against a journey with basically nothing except backpack, shirt trousers, shoes. so it really, i would say, i would say it's it put a hold of some sort in my life, the less every other person who is in the situations ah collins hopes to get into a university in germany. but for now, he is learning german and working at a retail store. i used to really loud sounds. we didn't sound the cheat on me before i started having like therapy sessions. i used to like have me but insomnia. and when i did sleep, i had really crazy night. apart from that, i think i'm given,

but sounds like it's been a very difficult journey for collins. but guess what? collins is right here with us in the studio item collins. now we talk more about his current situation and his future plans in just a moment. but fast. i'll show you a wondering why so many african students chose to study and ukraine. here's 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. the biggest rocket 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 african students were to see exactly how many students remain in. 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 leaving the same war. now they're facing obstacles as the feet of the cation hangs in the balance. now you say melia, calling xavier is with me in the studio. thanks again for joining us. thank you. i

mean we have seen and heard a little bit of the telling this 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. yes. 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 what 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 exact situation you're

in? and i wouldn't say so own and say that out of interest, why don't you know, work what, what you're going to. i mean 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 there. when we know what happens, a border where you go through it and it's i think it's not even my place to let them know. i think really why i mean, they do know russia, i talk to you. yeah. they know go and find out even if you're doing okay. oh not oh . yeah. they know i'm doing okay. okay. i mean, i've got a place to stay now. 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 brokerage. 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 or not, so it will not talk because we'll talk soon about them whenever tenant home is an

option. but let's fast here from another nigerian, we'll hourly, i'll do my g. he studied medicine in ukraine, not to escape the rash and strikes. he's now building a new life for himself in the netherlands. since russia invaded ukraine and february millions have led the country among them leisure and all, only after much eat. you remember 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 really, really got me scared like really, really scared was the air strike. so all i, while a decided to flip, so we converged at the city center in the pool 9 am. then we go to the boss, the boss, the destination of the boss was supposed to because whose garage they from was good to ship near the end in escape. the country for was now continued from chevy. misty was go from was go to zoning,

zone is the border with ukraine and hungry. after deloney, we'd go to hungry and i have friends in germany, some in netherlands, and then do we tell them your, germany's and netherland is. but because of my own person, genuine yvonne option netherland 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 country. you can choose to, maybe you want to go right, u. s. emily, the medical license examined us or you go to canada or somewhere else like ukraine was like a stepping point to you know, pie brought 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 now june, you'd stalking,

we look at the countries not really, really conducive. forced to even stick or want to go back. he has since found a new group of friends when, when, when we got here, when i met people, we liked people that way. you know, in my condition, even worse. i mean we're running from ukraine together. so it only makes sense that people, that this is like mains are tracks, right. and then people are you experiencing the same thing? adapting moment is easier for you to connect. hello. well, if next step is registering at a university in the netherlands, i want to get my status here legalized 1st. alyssa can let me know. we'll keep this in my stay here. this is my status. 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, come with goodness, i'm headed for you know, beautiful achievement and beautiful like ah, very interesting story. we're back in the studio with collins xavion now. and i, i do as government officially, you know, give statements the see, the are welcoming or, and i do and stuff, let the war right, that they're going to 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? or is it is one thing for a government. select still your citizens to come back and, and he's on and i think 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 to come back to manager, come up to what actually there's been months of university strike lex initially since the war started or universal federal universe in the,

in and job been on stripe. that is one. so students go on, go to school to economy is getting worse by day, even with, but 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 plan 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 some would say, why wouldn't you want to be in the comforts of your home with your family founded by love, even 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 the bill and put food in the amount of a people living in one house. right. so like, i feel,

i mean going back is just going to be like an extra bird. i when see cream to study, right. i went to like i, she's something going back without actually what i went to do doesn't make sense to me. so why do it? okay, yeah, she could also avoid it 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 africans out there, particularly those that fled that war and your brain and maybe hearing from someone like you officially the 1st time you know, wow, what is your message to them right now? i think let's, let's think you look into this and this way and it seems like everything is actually on shore. everything is totally out of out of line split. 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 everybody who like explains the way i like part of the, like really few who have experience both upon them. it under war at the same time, not me to say don't use to 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 returned home like at lien alba. she left sally onto the u. k . i. the age of 17. i stay in the u. k. was prolonged by the civil war in her home country and eventually so returned home and is using her new found skills to help 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 recruitment skills development and just general human resources management services. i'm so employee and i was wanting 3 towns select 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. 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 when i'm back and thought about how i could help other people who wanted to come back, you know, find the jobs. my friend had a website called org. and i used to look through the newspapers and post the job ads from the newspapers 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 looking for jobs or when they're trying to acquire skills in order for them to get the right job, i want job says to be the place to the best advice that i have received is to me to slow down and recognize that icons do everything that i want to do. my advice to people moving back would be come with an open mind come with an attitude of 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 do things so your kids love the place, right. don't complain too much about the power and the water 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 would want to help fix as well in the future. so it just have a nice balance and yeah, i really like the whole thing about balance, right. very good advice fast she gave there. so much complained sometimes let's let the people buckle. no 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 palance can you bo, stuff i can sing and tell stories,

but that's about it. but i would never showed up with that africa as could ne paul . she's a dancer, cleo, graph, d g, and the soon to be limping. athlete. this all try to leonard woman is reason the baffle artist, an athletes in her home country. she gave us a glimpse into a day in the life of a rising star. john, to be an emotional, practical thing. once i did my job and then 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, d g and olympic athlete? courtney, paul, 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. you just took another sample that engaged a couple months ago. it's quite

a new house. i'm like in the happiest days, probably been as good. i got into dancing around 11 or 12 years old. by the time i've been a generic many years. so i finally found like something that was a combination of skills to get that and we just guys do, i call the cooler thing that goes with a good and, and i was like, what about the back look like, i don't know if he knows the back and that's lifetime, like minneapolis exercising, takes up a big chunk of courtney's thing, especially as she gives up to represent health african 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 who came many of the other countries have facilities in place, have uniforms of coaches. assistant coaches have programs and we kind of was

fighting along doing everything we can go with breaking, seen it changing the male female in terms of numbers here. it's growing for the 1st time, we just had a females in the south african final, you know, a previously it was to go at a time. courtney is also on track to reach new heights in south africa. music industry. the latest release has and half south african heap of a wide nomination day of the year. ah, ah, visit today is agree on. this is where my career exploration being able to get on stage the names that gone through your body than when would you get the 1st button and everything and suddenly like disappears. you know it's, it's really like unique of its own without any local success stories to inspire her career, perf courtney and forging her only a head and he's setting the bar incredibly high for brake dances across south

africa. being a female in the space. it gets tricky. the system wasn't up to me in any way, so you constantly forcing your foot through a draw and it wasn't made with me mind. but i think the harder you push through it, you able to see that touchy better than a lot of the guys and i shouldn't be waiting for permission to somebody to open a door for metal 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 her break dancing at the olympics. fingers crossed where. now i hope you enjoyed ever bits of the issue because i definitely did, but it's time to wrap it all up. let's keep a conversation going on facebook, instagram or youtube. you can also email us at 77, d, w dot com. now we'll play you out of the show where they track titled africa, one of a kind by angelica kito featuring list that easy and beneath the next time

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