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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 go before the war begun. but on the show today we have someone who was forced to feed 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 need nigerian students will now ali abdul mcgee who is making a new life for himself in the netherlands up lee in the walk through it also look at the story of adlene. alba fluid tend to sterile you and to help young people pick stuff you think you got, moves me, the south africa, great dancer, and 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 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, really hard to find. hi, my name is collins. i'm 21 and i'm from nigeria, in legal group in vegas. feel like high school and i moved to you by don't in one area. i mean, that's going to be really hard in schools to get in the university of if i don't to study law, actually we're like, they're kind of like loud 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 heart keep 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 and then my roommate talk to me and just like, did you hear like hear what then he like those bombing. i mean i was like stop joking because the night before will joking about he was the last one games don't funny until it was so 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 was sort of panicking big time. i called my guardian of some sort. and then it was like,

nothing is going to happen is just this just some blasts, but go out, get some food stuck of your free to stain doors. and then i went out and i saw everybody on the streets piloting. everybody was literally trying to like got all the stores to buckled for the could. people were like in frank withdrawn money to will. can you bugs putting them inside of wilson 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 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, but i like things green. i didn't stay that long, but i had kind of had a 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'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 like basically nothing against a 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 this 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. we 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 but

sounds like it's been a very difficult journey for collins. but guess what? collins is right here with us in the studio. i didn't collins, but now we talk more about his current situation and his future plans in just a moment. but fast, i'll 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 we. ringback 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. 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 rocket, easy to get visas, living costs, and the high acceptance of degrees from ukraine and where 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 you say camellia calling xavier is with me in the studio. thanks again for joining us, scholars. thank you. i mean,

we have 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, sufficient is guess him better, but like is feel us tricky as always, you know, gemini grew up received 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 go back to my country and something like that. so like it's still i'm still in las vegas yesterday say no. oh, 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, 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, but 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 interesting. why don't you know, work. 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. you just knew the person that brought that up. when we know what happens when 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 know, go. ringback and i me find out even if you're doing okay. oh no. oh yeah. de know, i'm dean. 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 both 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. a if you want to go back home on us, we will not talk 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. b study medicine in ukraine, not escaping the ration of 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, 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 skid, 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 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 sony,

we'd go to hungry and have friends in germany, some in netherlands, and into until the middle of 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 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, the, i wouldn't, 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 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 like people down in my condition, even worse. i mean we're running from ukraine together. so it only makes sense there. people that they see like maint attracts right, and then people are you experiencing the same thing? adapting moment is this is easier for you to connect. hello alice. 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 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 no beautiful achievement and beautiful i had 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 are 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 being 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 miss willis since the war started or universe offering was 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 with russia and ukraine and even africa. so the, the things keep going up on this was the 3rd point of it, but i mean, the economies is bad everywhere. i mean, you feeling it 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 founded 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 it. i love 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 mean, like i, she's something going back with actually what i went to do doesn't make sense to me . so why do it? okay, yeah, she could have also avoided awesome 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 thing you know, wow, what is your message to them right now? 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 blind. 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 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 no, just keep going. you know, thanks very much calling for that and i wish you all the best obviously, and how things go. it's 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 several you into 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 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 of 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 one 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 that we're talking about. when i tell 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 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 firm dropping my c v o. 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 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, then 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 seekers 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 for your kids love the police right. don't complain too much about the 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 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. she gave that, you know, too much complained sometimes let's lead the people back home. now. 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 the soon to be limping. athlete. this all try to leonard woman is reason the baffle artists and athletes in her home country. to give us a glimpse into a day in the life of a rising star. john, to be an emotional, practical one type. it's my job. and the living. on the other hand is 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 at d. g and olympic athlete. courtney, paul, the 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. you just took another different setting a couple of months ago. it's quite a new house. i'm like in the happiness probably ever been as good

i got into dancing around 11 or 12 years old. and i've been a generic of many years. so i finally found like something that was a combination of skills to get that. and we just guys do like all these cooler things that goes with a good and, and i was like, what about the back look like, i don't know, people doing the bags. and that was like linear fluids exercising takes up a big chunk of courtney's day, especially as she gives up to represent how fast we can take for i have to be serious stops throughout the year. 2 important to qualify for the olympics last year was our 1st run. i came 1st on the, on the continent under the females. so i'm on my way to women 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 everything

with breaking seen it changing the mail that says female in terms of numbers here. it's growing. for the 1st time, we just had a female genocide, african final you know, where previously it was to go at the time. courtney is also on track to reach new heights in south africa is music industry. the latest release has and half south african heap of a wide nomination date of the year. i a for, this is where my career exploration being able to get on stage to move on to your body than when would you get the 1st button and everything is suddenly like disappears, you know, it's, it's really like it. so without any local success stories to inspire how could we of her caught me in forging her only ahead 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 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 how do you push through it? you're able to see that actually better than a lot of the guys that shouldn't be waiting for commission for somebody to open the door to 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 her break dancing at the olympics, fingers crossfire. now i hope you enjoyed every bits 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 where they track 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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