[000:00:00;00] a in 60 minutes on d. w. a. a. hello and welcome to your favorite youth magazine, show that 77 percent. this edition was shining, the sport light on the african students caught up by the russian attacks in ukraine . i am your host, eddie micah junior,

and i'm so excited what's coming up with now before russia attacked you cream was a popular destination for african students. my own cousin was bad to fab. i had occasion lucky for her. she finished her program and we tend to go before the war begun. but on the show today we have someone who was forced to feed the war to find out more about his jenny and struggle to catch up with his studies. but that's not all. we have for you, midnight, incidental. now ali abdul mcgee was making a new life for himself in the netherlands to play in the world. what else to look at? the story of adlene alba fluid tend to sell you to help young people that you think you got? moves me. the south africa break down a d. j. breaking down by i 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 you could just let dead and smoke. and then the other thing you could hear was bon phones and ben gunshots some intervals, you see, so just stop the trains and then come in and search. it was really, really hard to find. hi, my name is collins 21 and i'm from nigeria. i was born in legal group in vegas. feel like high school and i moved to by don't interior. i mean, that's like really hard schools to get in the university of if i don't to study law actually when they're kind of like loud enough for me. so i had to like,

try to look for something outside the country. when i got my way to get the ukraine . collins was studying international law at heart national university in 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 . and then my roommate talk to me and just like, did you hear like hear what any like those bombing any i was like stop joking because the night before will joking about the 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 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 free to stay indoors. and then i went out and i saw everybody on the street panicking. 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. collins school was also bump with a group of other foreign students, collins decided to leave. you claimed 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. i lay things green. i didn't stay that long, but i had kind of had a life like aspiring to build a happy life. i was already building on, and then the war comes and, and everything is broken down. i left the interior right to restart. and then it's kind of not fair when you're restart turned to an end. and then you have to leave

me start again from the beginning and defining 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 life 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 used to really loud found re so i didn't sound the cheat on me before i started having like therapy sessions, i used to like have but insomnia. and when i did sleep,

i had the crazy night about that. i think i'm getting found like it's been a very difficult journey for collins, i guess what collins is right here with us in the studio item collins. now as well, we talk more about his current situation and his future plans in just a moment, but fast. i'm sure you're wondering why so many african students chose to study in ukraine? yes, well 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 who are 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 date 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 a high acceptance of degrees for creating the teeth word white. but when russia invaded ukraine at the beginning of 2022, mocking the largest conventional military attacks in world war 2, thousands of african students were forced to flee. exactly how many students remain . clean, 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 education hangs in the balance. now, yes,

i am area calling xavier is with me in the studio. thanks again for joining us. thank you. i mean we've 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, vision is getting better, but like it feel us tricky as always, you know, gemini rocker seemed 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 city say no. oh, so if you're unable to put up a good defense of why you want to remain here, then what i, i don't know. yeah, sure, sure. i mean we're going to dig a bit more into their dynamics. so you decided to go home or not, you know, you know, compared to other students 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 i wouldn't say that, you know, that's interest. why don't you know, work, what's what you're going to, 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 what happens, a bird while you go through it. and i think it's not even my place to let them know . i think really, why i mean, do you know 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 a good 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 smooth, if you want to go back home or not. so it will not taught because we'll talk soon

about them whenever tenant home is an option. but let's fast here from another nigerian. well, our lee, 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, 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 going to come from, you know, air strikes on all that. so the thing that i really, really got miss kate, like really, really scared was the air 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 boss, the destination of the boss was supposed to because who's got them from? who's good to ship, misty and then we escaped. the country for was now continued from chevy. misty was,

grew from, was grew to sound, zone is the border with ukraine and hungry after zoning. we go to hungary and i have friends in germany, some in netherlands, and then they were telling me, oh, germany's and netherland is. but because of my own person, jimmy wasn't yvonne option netherland. was it? all? i? well, it is one of 20000 african students who studied in ukraine. i saw you can as a stepping stone from. okay, finish your studies. now you have a certificate from ukraine. you can choose to go back to your country, you can choose to, maybe you want to go, right? yes, 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 that's looking 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 9,

jr. talking we look at the country is not really, really conducive. forced to even stay 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 live people doorway in my condition, even worse. i mean, we're running from ukraine together. so it only makes sense that people, that they see like minds and trucks, right? and then people die. you experience in the same thing at that same moment is easier for you to connect while if next step is registering at a university. and then other than i want to get my status here legalized 1st and this, okay, let me know. we'll keep, this might be 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 study, but also hope to follow his dream of becoming an actor. yeah,

i believe something great is come in very, very soon. and yeah, we had a bit nervous and headed for, you know, beautiful achievement and beautiful like. 2 ah, very interesting story. we're back in the studio with collins they be and i'll, and i know government officially give a statement the see the welcoming all night doing stuff lead the war. right. that they're going to put you back in school. you know, back home by all how you just have to accept to go. you decided not to go. why my dear, not an option for you. and it is one thing for 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 back to major almost what actually has been once of university strike lex,

mitchell is since the war started or university federal university in andrew, i've 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 of it. 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, well, 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? exactly. so when surrounded by love doesn't really it doesn't really. yeah, exactly. he doesn't be there on the building 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 went see cream to study, right? i went to like, she's something going back with actually what i went to do doesn't make sense to me . so why do it? ok if you could also avoid it, houses to try something else. ok, you ok. 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 in a while. what, what is your message to them right now? you, 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 blinds. 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 experience both upon them. it under war at the same time. not me and said i knew surviving. so why not just keep going. you know, thanks very much calling for that and, and i wish you the best obviously, and how things go. a long wait, but i hope things turn are good for you. thank you. wow. some people decide to remain abroad. others return home like at lien alba. she left sally on to the u. k . at the age of 17. a stay in the u. k. was prolonged by the civil war in her home country and eventually to return 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 will be nice for everybody to come home and feeling 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, catch 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, 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 that we're talking about. when i go 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 and 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 firm dropping my tv. oh. so i have that in mind. you know, when i'm back in thought about how i could help are the people who wanted to come back to, you know, find the jobs. my friend had their websites called you 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 at the end of the application, so that's how you started me to my vision for job search is so as 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 so 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 visit, make sure you, you do things to your kids. 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. so it just have a nice balance. yeah, i really like the whole thing about balance, right. very good advice 1st she gave their, you know, so much complete sometimes. let's let the people buckle. not feel like all hell this lose out there. so yeah, i hope you also good that advice. now let's move to quite a different topic. how many talents can you both stuff?

i can sing and tell stories, but that's about it. but i would never rob showed up with that africa. could me paul? she's a dancer, choreograph, d g, and the soon to be olympic athlete. this all try to leonard woman is reason the baffle artist, an athlete in her home country. she give us a glimpse into a day in the life of a rising star. john, to be an emotional, practical things. once i did my job and the living put 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 a schedule. it's actually surprising how much she gets done in a day fee and say you have the biggest supporter. i've known my partner for over 10 years. we just took another different getting guys a couple months ago. just put

a new house. i'm like in the happy days or probably been as good. i got into dancing around 11 or 12 years old. by the time i've been a generic doctor many years. so i finally found something that was a combination of skills to get up and we just guys do a call. the cooler thing that goes with a good and, and i was like, what about the bachelor? 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 thing. especially of shaggy is up to represent 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 on my way to women who came many of the other countries have facilities in place, have uniforms of coaches,

assistant coaches program. and we kind of just fighting along everything we can go through with the braking 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 a time. courtney is also on track to reach new heights in south africa's music industry. latest release has and half south africa, people, a wide nomination for date of the year. i . with this is where my career exploration being able to get on stage. the news that going through your body, the moment you get the 1st part and, 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 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 for 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 to mail to tell me it's ok to beat me. i need to be ok. 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 crossed where. now i hope you enjoyed every bit of this. sure. 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, d, w dot com. now, will play you out with a show where they track titled africa, one of

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