sanders valley africa to meet the founders, impelling their continent through digital innovation. transforming work and health and living conditions in their country and inspiring world with their ideas. founders valley africa started february 13 on the w. africans are leaving behind their lives in the west and breaking barriers in their countries of origin. if any chance of the 77 percent would be looking at just that welcome to his recently the st of homecoming. riding the tag, review is spot to for the very 1st time, all the way from the gambia. let get lucio rolling into this program. we get up and

close with an activist who wants to empower women in saralitos in banjo, the gambling capital. we caught up with locals who, why one way or another ended up coming back and robert ali jam, aka a killer, is take that on a whirlwind trip to the city. we called out of that. welcome back. oh, i forgot. it's not all poverty. it's also glitz and glamour. gloria lou more was to show it to the world. after spending 8 years in the u. k. she decided to go back to ghana and launched glitz magazine. today, it's one of gardener's biggest fashion and lifestyle media brand. now that's what i call home coming in style. when i walk back to gonna, my whole scene was to change the narrative of how people sole africa if

all we are show in the west is how hungry you bala is. how was our destroy in us? want to come and invest in nothing. who are young people jobs? my name is claudia lamar and i'm the founder and ceo of glitz africa and also college media. when i came to ghana, dewayne slate magazines, and i'm somebody who's always loved magazine. and what i was trying to solve was to make sure that we're telling the full side of africa to that's what was my real passion behind that in the magazine. and, and it developed into other brands as well, which and then developed into the glitz africa, fresh in week. and then the great style awards. ask that in grades and was they stats of a fashion industry because you couldn't find on the time style is move, struggle to give me up what is do do all of that and that's will really kicked off for this dollar was for me, which is a fashion awards, which done this really, really well as well for the last 7 years. i left the shows, i'm gonna,

i am when i finish my 1st degree at climate where you rest your science and technology in kumasi. so after my uni education, i went to the u. k. i spent about 8 years there and got their spirit that i needed from the bank in world. and then i decided to move back home because i was ready to start a family. and my focus was not to raise my children in the u. k. i. he started the magazine as every entertainer. the 1st one was raising capital, which when i started, clearly became regular to me. that is not something that you could get funding for . it has to come from your savings. and so i started like that. so capital was a big challenge. but i and i started to, you know, with the little that i have believe in that. once i stay consistent with the publication bronze will start seeing the work, or do you know that the ties in that develop in our capital investment from their

to see that the fashion industry in gala particularly is not the same as he used to be 10 years english africa has been a huge factor in treating the industry that we have at the moment. that's goosenich . so my joy, the impact that we're suffering, that has, is a huge stakeholder when it comes to fashioning you taken, gunner so my advice to dice boilers who are hoping to move back home is to misha. them mentally. you up with pet. you're ready for the move, as soon as you luck will to cut. you leave the you and america mindsets there or lifestyle. and then you take on that one off gonna reasons why you move in should be strong enough to make you want to see. so of course here we have bad was we have potholes. yes. but what are you trying to set up here? so you should be able to overlook some of these challenges and thus some of the advice that i give to my friends is this. the biggest thing is the mindset to be ready for the move. well nowadays home base live,

right is i'm to high and use as kalama for african fashion. so that was really a great comeback. but lou was a razzle dazzle. comes with a deep and profound purpose. very much like chem abbas. the c. o i'm fond of porpoise for the man i see in the world. headquartered in 3 towns to rally owned by organization, operates in over 90 countries with but one ambition to empower women. so that they can re make the world when you leave the west, oftentimes you have to be a good black man. you have to be actually black mind going to be to want to watch the us. and there was a point where i got tired and i did not want to be in the site anymore. well, i will be complicit in my home. did you want it? i do want to push my own money. my name is cher number, chemical founder and code seal purpose focus group. this organization can be shown to re nick the world and 4 girls

up up a school girls, unrestricted access to money out because really simple money is park. here's the money we was wanting to girls and feminists. and on by, in our groups cheering stereo and around the world. i was born in the neighborhood committee who were 6 years old. the war in this country keeps off. and so in a sense of our childhood was interrupted by the noise of my son then rabbit college, which is a name right off side graduated in 2006 at opportunities to be working with united nations on a very special project that was looking at it impacts of contact on children's

lives across the board at wow. is that it was based in new york but transferred to dana to lebanon, disconnected stories of young people. and again, i had to hard to put those stories together and present that to the mission. i will never forget when i made the decision and my wife will come back and my most visible reaction was from someone would drive in washington d. c. i was from dana was driving me and i was like, yeah, i'm just backing up now. i had back next more. my family and i kid you not. he pulled over his stocks. i just called again jamarion any turned around and looked at me in the back seat of the carney goes. i have to talk to you. don't go back, dad. you don't belong, dear, you belong. here you go. so when you walk in an office in the united nichols,

you do, knowledge is good. why do you want to go back to africa? people who don't want to be know, don't put your children to that. i make me think the reason i wants to move from new york and i want to say that i felt i did not want to be in a society anymore. what i will be complicit in my own dehumanization. i don't want to question my own money. that's what my wife and i agree to sell my you want. it is not question. i'm a person, i'm a human being and that's taken for granted. and that's really important. we. we sit in the west and we compton about things about home and fix it. and when you come back here, you really have a chance to get frustrated, but you've got a really good chance. you have to come with the same attitude that you left with. when you went to the west. you knew you had to work hard to fit in to make it work . so you are more likely getting some skill, some knowledge that i guess where if not in facts on delivery.

so when you come back here, you put in that same work that used to fit in that society. and you will be surprised at your both, your ability to adopt and your ability to make change. why can people like to learn more? i wonder what my plans are feature on a pope was really does fine. you just like it defines some. i'm sat in a condo, this lady from burn the study in china before returning to open the country's 1st permanent ad gallery in the capital region for our relatively young country, which has seen a lot, i believe, developing countries and culture. so in a row condos efforts will go a long way in giving the youth identity, preferred from an ard, ever, around our gallery in green. i've

a platform for the art for the edition, the actual deserves. my name is dana condo, and i'm the founder and executive director of 252, and i was born and raised a burgundy specifically was one of my 3rd memories during the landscape online site. they have noticed i do have mom and he'll so the combination of and assign carry county environments after high school i left and went to china city and i was there for 6 years. i was good for the university because our school project that had came in late at some point that make our and kind of take over the world.

so i wanted to position myself as someone, one of the people in a sense, a country and how they do what they do, their language. i china in 2014 because i wanted to contribute to the change was happening. that's why i started, i actually exhibit and then sell dead works and then making hard to a viable option. i believe that i can be a cookie for change. oh yeah. so so it's culture. mind right? to keep going to for who wants to come back to really after great general come we, we don't community do willing to and trying to

comment as a whole continent by itself. you have to work with people, you have to collaborate to people. you have to understand people, combine with them and intellect. the. now it's our conversation that i had with for a brilliant young man who studied abroad, came back home, decided to do different things in agriculture. so my in real estate, what others are doing some form of entrepreneurship. they are for brilliant young people who told me about their homecoming experience. and i really had a great time doing this interview. why i'm so excited to be hosting some brilliant young guy in b as in this home coming edition. i'm so excited to start this conversation, of course with july in july, and he got an m b, c in what's in non profit management. and where did you start in the us,

right in the us. she is also one of the few ladies i see thriving in the real estate industry and working with one of the, you know, number one real estate companies in the guy me here. i know what business development relations manager, so i'm talk to me about your experience. how is life back in the u. s. and why did you decide to come back home? me, you're a lady. the prospect higher for you in a european country, but you decided to come back to africa like i'm yeah for me was quality of life one being able to give back. i mean, what i said it was bit monday in front of me and i want to give back to my community and to be able to do that will actually come in. i mean, let me just come to, you quickly allows you, elijah, you went through the irregular journey. of course, migration is very normal, but when you look at the visa regime for especially african countries, it is not, you know, the best of the best options. we have always easy for africa to migrate to other, especially europe in countries. but would you say going through the irregular route

was really was the struggle for who, you know, it was very difficult because before i left you and i was not having enough information, i will be johnny, you know, so i just talk of my things, you know, how much money? you know, i was brilliant business before you before i left. so luther, you know, my mind was in europe, you know, because it was just great. yeah. you know, because of some problems too. i have to watch my business. so i, when i was a 1st 5 countries before i re, to libya, but you know, it was very difficult. so at what point during the journey, did you feel that you wanted to come back home? i think that you came back voluntarily. i came running through, but before voluntary it was very tough. you know, it was something which will not us. you know, if you don't come back over there. so you had no choice but to come back home because sometimes they will, they will do this. but let me know, you need to pay it, take you out. maybe when we get into class. so before that happened to me, you know, because i went to look pretty good. so i left, you know,

it was nothing like that, you know? so i said, let me go. so it was, it was, it wasn't worth it at all. let me just put a plus to that. i've come quickly to bob. ok. he has such a smart, young man. and by the way, i got relations and really in the i talk, i see the start of the year. i mean, this is a business is thought is relatively free as a goal. when you came back from your studies in the u. k, you were studying in economics and finance, so you decided to come back during covey period. tell us what was that period like for you? it was pretty crazy, especially when you don't plan coming back home. finishing university, all you want to do is find a job of straight on go on to your masters and hopefully find a better job. after that, i had no plan for that. immediately i finished university. i had an opportunity to work in a back for 6 months. i came back home with the intention of extending my visa to go back to my master. then hopefully you find that job. and then coming back,

just to realize that this corporate close, i can't do any obligation delay. ok. what's next? but being a person of id i bank. every idea i have to, i looked back in like, ok, i'm not going to sit down and do nothing for the next 6 months. and i also didn't want to work for any company because i want to comfort only freedom. so i didn't, i didn't find people that i thought could help me get into the looking for the land . she found that me, my solution was sad of my own coming from a background for my mom and my dad's side. i don't know you're in to the us when you were 6, right. and then you decided to come back at a time when people, when, when, when talking about having solar panels in farms for agriculture besides that. in fact, you have a different degree in something spoke to us about just story lead the different background. i mean that's can be when i was 6 because my father was an ambassador to the u. n. so i basically grew up with my, for many years away from gambia,

but i think years later, you know, i was working at the world bank, i have see, and all these things and a lot of things you think about in your life. but you never think about losing somebody you love and living my life and just like that my, my husband passed away and i didn't plan for that. but then again, life goes on and i realize it's never a perfect moment to do nothing. you know, you're always waiting, you like, i want to do this. i want to do that. i said that i always wanted to be a farmer, but i can't imagine doing it anywhere else. but at home. but what, at what time in your life district decide to come back. it was really, it wasn't the height of the impact. you know, it was in 2016, the height of the impact. december 16, 2016. i got on the i came through austrian airlines. the people in the airlines asked me, excuse me, do you know where you're going to? i said yes, i'm going to the gambia. they said, do you know what's happening right now? the situation is not safe. are you going there is a piece keeper?

i said, no, i'm going there as a farmer, i think that must have thought i, i don't issue okay, but i realize it didn't matter because the situation we're hoping for peace people have to eat. you know, if we look at the situation in the gambia, those of us that are lucky enough to live abroad study abroad. we're not, we're not away from the issues because guess what? you got to send money to your family. if something happens or some emergency, you're normally the emergency. so how do you plan for your life? you know, you can have a comfortable life abroad, but if that those that are your family are not comfortable here, you're never at peace. never come to you about go quickly. would you wish that things change in a way that you could actually go back and it was a drink of it that you had to come back and get stuck in your country and not have to go. but we do have hope for a different situation. how do you feel about being it's like feeling, especially when you're starting with your own money? no money to look back at and we'll okay, and we're just gonna type into that and being the eldest in the front. oh,

there is just come to you quickly. i jolla and just tell me how it's working out for you right now. and just how do you feel that this was the best position to have done? i feel at that point you were in in 2016. i think there isn't any other decision. i could have made at the time because 1st of all, if i think about it today, if i didn't have the, the motivation or the, the belief to go, it was a forest. i went into what was just a complete forest. and today come 7 hector's. i mean, when you go there like over 40 women and men, you know, sometimes over 100 women and men and their children are there. if i didn't do that, they're gaining their livelihood. you whether i'm there or not, they're there benefiting from that farm in the land. i'm me and how is it going for you? you seem to really be at ease, you know, the way she just see that and poise. but tell me how they're working for you and do you feel you've made the best decision staying in your home and doing which alone.

there's no place my home. and yes, i have made the right decision thing at home. and what i'm doing now, i feel i'm, i'm happy about it because i'm able to help people as well. i'm doing so much. i mean, it is. if we are in industry what i'm growing in, if i'm doing other things in addition to the job, but there's so many people out there that i'm helping in terms of finding their solutions for me. i am at my pink at the moment. we are on what a great way to end those particular segment because a lot so many insightful conversations for new people. and i think i just have some mixed feelings about it, that it might not always be easy at the beginning, but i think the date is no place like home. and when you come at home, no matter what the amount of resource you have, you can always find a place to start and eventually grow in that i hope this is something that we can all go home with. of course i am taking away that and i hope you do to now we're almost at the end of today show. but if you want to see more upset are good now my

city, what i'll do is walk us through it. this is one of us last activities, but we always love to hear from my favorites. what is that now? by the way, is this i cannot market so chaotic, but was the chaos. i hope. i believe you will love to see sarah goodnight some days soon, and it is not the thought of by july. however, it is the center of the country's culture economy and it's booming. the apply molly cornwell, if you wait till the 8th activist, and i want to welcome you to my city, several hellingport o'connell had to river. pick you around, please around town. welcome ya to my city. it a all our pretty but still my city. welcome. yeah. ali cham aka a killer ease, as deeply connected to his west african homeland that 35 year old was born here in

the district of challenging in sarah condis east. and he lived here today with a population of around 365000 sarah conder as the biggest metropolitan area in the gum. yeah. that's also the countries cultural and economic hop killer, ease, laughter, local produce, hope this iraq, when the market in the heart of the city. do i know that goose like them under, under voluntary agreement? well, i yeah. what address, i'm going to start with the copper one of my favorite foods out here that has the sour taste and you add your salt lake. i thought for some sort and pepper and some sugar to have that sweet and sour, you know, emission. and you know, it's nice like gives you a different 10th sarah condense, population is overwhelmingly young, but there aren't enough jokes for then many are able to get by by doing or jobs and even scotts killer east struggled for a while as a cellphone vendor on

a so called black market lossless place, a lot of people survive over this place and especially the young people. and if you become all of these young people, like in contrast to those that are picking the mediterranean sea level to europe and you realize that the young people really do want to do something. i believe that my music is quiet and just keep on believing themselves. because killer is, isn't just a rougher. he's also an activist. his experience at political injustice began when he was just 4 years old. as family fled from the regime of former dictator, j. r dummy today night, as states, when he returned at the age of 15, it teamed up with a young people, and the mazda must visions against a precedent in the westfield district. his commitment to justice later made him a target. i released a song called co book as a gate to you, which means if you're part of the heard of couse, think it was if they could be what they come back to them. and that song

spoke against corruption, the police brutality, the arbitrary arrest. and a lot of is that what happened in bloom in that time? i was targeted after that. and that's why i had to go this on the way to pick up. mm hm. but to build this law for his homeland brought killer east back to the cumbia in 2017. when the democratically elected president adama barrow took part, the country's boy nomics. the tuition still hasn't changed, but sarah couldn't dis, residents don't load these problems to stop them from enjoying life killer east meets his crew at town. a typical working class neighborhood is kind of what city got from it is just a big nobody cares about. people got tourism is on a rise since sarah couldn't. the lies from the shores of the atlantic ocean kilometers of prestige. sandy beaches have made it an increasingly popular destination. of course, the look horse also liked to relax and

a beach in the afternoon time mama, our mamma. yup. so well come to lay back a bit. what are my favorite places in the gambia? you see the beautiful beach, the beautiful people having fun, and you know, it was really a great time. have you guys, anyone know, like to take everybody for watching it and hope that you confir dampier soon. which of my city is not or lap written? what a filled math it said you had to break open when they came in like a battle in the fall for the little you played a few years on what i really really wanted when the involvement of the african dias were in the continental development has increased over the past decade, people like the ones we've focused on in this special edition of home coming, have gay jan teak ro to play in future as well. i hope i've helped you understand that you to 7 to 7 present as i've a future of africa. well, well ours annisa graham phase would add you to you can also drop me an

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