a call to action, which i think does the little hope you mean with 60 minutes on t w. what secrets? why behind these walls, discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage site. d w world heritage 360. here now. hello and welcome to your favorites, youth magazine, show that 77 percent. now in 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 with now

before russia attacked ukraine 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 gone on 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 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 who is making a new life. quote himself in the netherlands to flee in the world. we would also look at the story of at lean elbow. fluid tend to sell you to help young people pick up. yeah. you think you got moved, meet the south africa, great dancer, deejay, 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 good. just like dead and smoke, i've been the only thing you could hear with my bon 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. 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 hardest 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 and look for something outside the country. i was when i got my way to get the ukraine collins for

studying international law at harkey national university of ukraine in them by anyone my my hope was going to 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 talk to me and just like, did you hear like hear what then he like those bombing. i was like stop joking because the night before will joking about he was the last one games don't funny until it was funny. will like trying to come now about it until we had 71. 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. and it was like, nothing is gonna happen is just this just some blasts 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 other 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 her life like aspiring to build i had 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 has had a 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 on the life of every other person who is in a situation 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 sounds really sudden sounds the me to 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 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 talked a while 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. 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 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 students. queens efforts 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 gateway to the european job market. the biggest rocket is it to get visas, living costs, and the high acceptance of degrees from creating the teeth worldwide. 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 leaving the same war. now they're facing obstacles as the feet of the cation 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, vision is getting better, but like it's still us. tricky. as always, you know, gemini grew up, received a long time and, and expect goodness, when i go like something on the immigration where i have like 2 months to present, why i can't go back to my country and something like that. so like it's still, i'm still in the regular fee as soon as you know. so if you're unable to put up 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 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 out of interest. why don't you know work? what's what you're going to. 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. but i just, 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. ringback 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 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 we're going to find out soon your plan if somehow things don't go smoothly. yeah. if you want to go back home, i know it's not taught because we'll talk soon about when i return home. it's an

option, but let's fast. yeah, from another nigerian. well hourly, i'll do my g. he studied medicine ukraine now to escape 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 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 skate like really, really skate 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 boss, the destination of the boss 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 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 do we tell them your, germany's and netherland is will because of my own person. jimmy was never an 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 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, pay votes you into that. would you want to be paula? now 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 stick 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 will likely put the weight 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, is, is easier for you to connect. hello alex, next step is registering at a university and another link. 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 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, can we headed for goodness, i'm headed for, you know, beautiful achievement and beautiful life ahead. 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 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? 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 to come back to major marks awards, actually there's been once of university strike lex initially since the war started

or universal federal universe in the, in a job on stripe. that is one. so students go on, go to school to economy is getting worse by the, 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 plan for, with russia and ukraine and even africa. so the, the things keep going up and it's was a fair enough points 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, so i 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 bird i when see cream to study, right. i mean like i, she's something going back with our actually what i went to do doesn't make sense to me. so why do it? okay, yeah, she could also avoid it. awesome 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 off. consolidate, particularly those that fled that why and ukraine, and maybe hearing from someone like you officially, 1st thing in a while, 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 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 everybody who like explains why 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 that it's a long wait, but i hope things turn out good for you. thank you. wow. some people decided to remain abroad. others returned 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 so a townhome 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 manager there. excellent job search job search is a human resources fan. so we do recruits 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 they were talking about. when i saw 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. ok, i needed to be here. when i was moving back, i had 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 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 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 at the end of the application, so that's how he started me to my vision for job search is so as to be the, the goal 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 place that the 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 so your kids love the police. right. don't complain too much about the power, the one on the back. 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. yeah, i really like the whole thing about balance. right. very good advice fast. she gave there too 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 bow stuff?

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 as 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. 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. we just took another samples that engaged a couple months ago. it's quite a new house. i'm like in the happiest days. it will be 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 like all these cool things that goes in the skirt 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 african idea takes for i have 2 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 that assistant coaches have program. and we kind of was fighting along everything with the breaking,

seen it changing the male female in terms of numbers here. it's growing for the 1st time we just had a female genocide, african final you know a previously it was to go at the time. courtney is also on track to reach new heights in south africa. music industry latest really has and half south africa for a wide nomination for date of the year. i with this is where my career exploration being able to get on stage to move on to your body. the moment you get the 1st button and everything is suddenly like disappears, you know, it's, it's really like any 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 mine. but i think the harder you pushed 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 males 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 audio olympics, fingers crossfire. now i hope you enjoyed every bit of this. you will 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 of the show with a truck titled africa, one of a kind. i angelica quito, featuring list that easy and beneath cater to the next time i have

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