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before russia attacked you cream, was he 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 gone out before the war begun, but under she'll to day 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 abdulla mcgee, who is making a new life for himself in the netherlands to flee in the world. we would also look at the story of at lien alba. fluid tend to sterile. you to help young people pick up? yeah. you think you got moved neatly south africa, great dance that a deejay breaking down by. i mean, 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 lay dead and smoke and then if you could hear with like bomb sounds and gunshots 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 21 and i'm from nigeria. point and leaving group in vegas till high school. and i moved to you by don't in one area. i mean that's like one of the really hardest schools to get in. the university of buttons to study law, actually we're like, 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 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. oh. and in the morning everyone sleeping 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 joking because the night before will joking about he was the last one games. funny until it was funny when i tried 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. 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 for the could. people were like trying to withdraw money to will. can you bugs putting them inside of woodson, like driving off high give was heavily hit when the war began. collins school was also bump. with a group of either foreign students, collins decided to leave you claim 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, 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 leave me

start again from the beginning and the saying when you start and again, you're starting actually like with nothing but 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 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 sounds really sudden sounds they me to me before i started having like therapy sessions. i used to like have need but insomnia. and when i did sleep,

i had the crazy night about from that i think i'm getting been around. felt 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 are we talking about his current situation and his future plans in just a moment? i fast, i'll show you a 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. tardies 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. the 2nd largest group from nigeria with 4000 students, followed by egypt with 3500. she did increase effort in enrolling international

students. deep back to the soviet era, the ukrainian 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 get to eat the european job market. biggest rockets is it to get visas, living costs, and the high acceptance of degrees from creating the teeth were 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 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 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 challenges that you went through back them. tell us, give us a bit of an idea what your current situation is. well, vision is getting better, but like it's still us. tricky. yes. always, you know, german rock received a long time and an expert goodness and i go like something from the immigration where i have like 2 months to present why i can go back to my punch in something like that. so like it's still, i'm still in the regular city. see no. oh so if you're unable to put 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 big a bit more into that and i makes you decide to go home or not, you know, you know, compared to other students that you know, but i'm assuming you've been in touch with your family 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 what, what, what you are going through. i mean, the regular someone i was going to brought, there is nothing else like there's nothing of disturbing you just knew the person that brought that up there. when we know what happens about what you go through and i think it's not even my, please let them know. i think really why i mean, they do know russia. i talk to you. yeah. dana logo and me find out even if you're doing okay. oh no, oh yeah. de 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. yeah. 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 dependent home is an option. but let's fast here from another nigerian. well hourly. i'll do my g. he studied medicine in ukraine, not escaping the russian air 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 and allow ali after my g . u members to 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 i really really got miscarried, like really, really kid was the 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 bus, the destination of the bus was supposed to because whose garage they from was good to ship. nice dnd in u. s. keep the country for was now continued from chevy. misty to was, grew from,

was grew to sound. zone is the border with ukraine and hungry. after sony, we'd go to hungry 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? yes. 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 stalk him really lucky. 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 there. wait, in my condition, even worse. i mean, we're running from ukraine together. so it only makes sense there. people that this is like maint attract, right? and then people are you experiencing the same thing? adapting movement is easier for you to connect. follow alice. next step is registering at a university and another. i want to get my status here legalize 1st, unless you can let me know. we'll keep this is 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 life. ah, very interesting story. we're back in the studio with collins xavion now, and i, i do as government officially, you know, gave a statement the see the a welcoming or, and i do and stuff. let the war write 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? know, is it is one thing for a government. select still your citizens to come back and, and 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 to come back to major a, come up to what actually there's been months of university strike like michigan

since the war started or universal federal universe in the, 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 man, friends 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 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 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 burt, i went see cream to study, right. i went to like i, she's something going back with actually what i went to do doesn't make sense to me . so why do it? ok, yeah, she 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 africans out there, particularly those that fled that war and ukraine and maybe hearing from someone like you officially, the 1st time you know, wow, what is your message to them right now? you, i think let's, let's make you look into this come and this way and it seems like everything is actually on shore. everything is totally out of out of blind 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 look 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 that it's a long wait, but i hope things turn are good for you. thank you. wow. some people decide to remain abroad. others returned home like at lien alba. she left sally 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, eventually to return home and is using her new found skills to help out by young people jumpstart the korea. s. 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 recruits mand skills development and just general human resources management services for employers. i was wanting 3 sounds from 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 promise him that i would complete my studies, but i needed to come back fast, mentally. really? i needed to be out of the ok. 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 moved back and thought about how i could help other people who wanted to come back to, you know, find the jobs. my friend had a website called you 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, i send off the application. so that's how we 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 says to be the plea that the 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 you do things to your kids, not the police. right. don't complain too much about a power the one on the back. don't get the kids into that. don't 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 just have a nice balance. yeah, i really like the whole thing about balance. right. very good advice fast she gave there. so much complaint 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 talents can you boast off?

i can sing and tell stories, but that's about it. but i would never showed up with that africa as couldn't a paul. she's a dancer, cleo graph, d g and the soon to be olympic athlete. this all try to leonard woman is reason the bar for artist an athlete in her home country. she gave us a glimpse into a day in the life of a rising star jauntily, 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, d g and olympic athlete. courtney, paul, the list of talents are hard to feed into the schedule. it's actually surprising how much she gets done in a day. cnc is her biggest supporter. i've known my partner for over 10 years. just took another thing, presenting a couple of months ago. it's quite

a new house. i'm like in the happiest 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 something that was a combination of skills to get that. and we just guys do like all these cool things that go to their goods and, and i was like, what about the back look like, i don't know if you know, doing the back. and that's why it's like minneapolis exercising takes up a big chunk of courtney's thing, especially as she gives up to represent health applicant, i think maybe 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 can 1st on the, on the continent under the female, so annoying to anything who came near. the other countries have facilities in place have uniforms of coaches. assistant coaches have program and we kind of was

fighting along doing everything with the breaking, seen it changing the mil 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 previously it was to go at a time. courtney is also on track to reach new heights in south africa. the music industry latest really has and half of flats, south african heap of a wide nomination for today of the year. ah, ah, visit today is agree on. this is where my career exploration being able to get on stage. the nodes that goes to your buddy. the moment you get the 1st button and everything is suddenly like disappears, you know it's, it's really like, you know, any of its own without any local success stories to inspire her career, perf courtney. and forging her only ahead and he's setting the bar incredibly high

for brake dances across south africa. being a female in the space, the 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 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 commission to somebody to open a door for metal to tell me it's okay to be there. i mean, 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 every bit of this. sure, because i definitely did, but 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 we'll play you out to the show where they track titled africa, one of a kind. i angelica teacher,

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