ah, d w, how about taking a few risks? you could even take a chance, a hearing to ah, don't expect to happy ending. double literature list. german africans are leaving behind our lives in the west and breaking barriers in their countries of origin. if you shut off the 77 percent would be looking at just that while come to his place at the center of homecoming, riding the tag review is spot to for the very 1st time all the way from the gambia . let gad lucia rolling in today's program, we get up and close with an active if once to empower women in sarai

in banjo, the gambling capital, we caught up with locals. why one way or another ended up coming back and robert ali, john aka killer, is take that on a whirlwind trip to the city we called so 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 on coming in style. when i walk back to gonna, my whole scene was to change the narrative of how people saw africa. if all we are show in the west is how hungry you, paula is,

how was i destroy in us one to come and invest in nothing? do i 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, they're wearing 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 tasteful side of africa to that's what was my real passion behind, start in the magazine. 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 asked that in grid was they stats of a fashion industry because you couldn't find under time style is move, struggle to get makeup artist do do all of that. and that's what 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 67 years i left the shores of ghana. i am when i

finish my 1st degree ad 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 brands 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 trenton. the industry that we have at the moment that gives me soon my joy. the impact that we're suffering that has is a huge stakeholder when it comes to freshening music and gunner so my advice to dice, those who are hoping to move back home is to misha. them mentally. you up his head . you're ready for the move. as soon as you land back whitaker, he leave the you and america, my said 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. by and 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, the live rate is i'm to high and use, ask lama 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. let's see. oh, i'm fond of what was for the man? i see no world, headquartered in free town to rally owned by organization operates in over 90 countries with but one ambition to empower women. so that they can remake the world when you leave the west, oftentimes you have to be a good black man. you have to be actually black minded if you want to walks in the us. and there was a point where i got tired of that. i did not want to be in the site anymore. well, i will be computer sits in my home. did you want it? i do want to push my own money. my name is chuck number. i'm a co founder and code seal as purpose. purposeful organization is gonna be shown to renew the world for girls.

are girls unrestricted access to money out because really simple. money is park. here's the money. you move money to girls and feminists. and on by, in our groups here in and around the world, i was born in the neighborhood called panicky, who were 6 years old. the war in this country keeps on. and so, you know, sense of our child was upset by the noise of my son then rabbit college. we just sign up for those old se of us and right outside graduated in 2006. i had an opportunity to be on talking with united nation on a very special project that was looking at an impact of conflict on children's lives across the board at. wow. is that it was based in new york but transferred to

you dana, to lebanon. and he just connected stories of young people and again i had to have to put those stories together and present that to the mission. i will never forget when i made the decision that my wife was going to come back. and my most visible reaction was from someone would drive in washington d. c. i was from gonna was driving me and i was like, yeah, i'm just backing up now. i had back next month. 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 a kind he goes. i have to talk to you. don't go back, dad. you don't belong dear, you belong here. you though. so when you walk in the united mitchells, you do not good. why do you want to go back to africa?

people who don't want to be now, don't put your children to that. i make me think the reason i want 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 humanity. that's what my wife and i agree and sell in my you want, it is no question. i'm a person, i'm a human being and that's taken for granted. and that's really important. i know 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 real chance to get frustrated. but you've got a really good chance. you have to come with the same attitude that you left with is 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 gain some skills, some knowledge that i guess if not in fact when i think

so when you come back here, you put in that same work that used to fit in step 5. and you will be surprised at your bought your ability to adopt our ability to change watching people like a little more. and i wonder what my plans are the future are. a pope was really does the find you just like it defines some mindset in a condo, this lady from burn the study in china before returning to open the country's 1st permanent gallery in the capital region. 4 are relatively young country, which has seen a lot, i believe, developing countries and culture. so in our condos efforts will go a long way in giving the youth that identity preferred from an ard, ever, around our gallery in green. i've a platform to lose our presentation. the actually deserves. my name is

dana condo, and i'm the founder and executive director of 252, and i was born and raised in burgundy. specifically one of my 3rd, my landscape online site. they have lakes and i notice i do have monson 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 go to university because our school project canine, healthy i related sound point that many of our and kind of tech over the world. so

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

to comment as a whole continent by itself. you have to work with people, you have collaborative people, you have to understand people combine with them. and now it's a conversation that i had with for really and young gumby and who's study 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 and being in this home coming edition. i'm super excited to start this conversation of course with july in july and he m s c in what and non profit management and and where did you study 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 here. i know what business development relations manager. so i'm talk to me about you 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 high for you in a european country, but you decided to come back to africa. and then for me was it was quality of life, one being able to give back. i mean, what i studied was management 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. allergy allergy 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 in the 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 you. you know, it was very difficult because before i left you and i was not having enough

information, how would be johnny rims? you know, so i just talk of my things, you know, have more money. you know, i was doing business before you before i left. so, you know, my mind was in europe. you know, because i was discourage here because of some problems too. i have to watch my business. so i, when i was a 1st 5 countries before i read to libya, but you know, it was very difficult. so at what point during this journey, did you feel that you want to come back home? i think that you came back voluntarily. i came volunteering, but before voluntary it was very tough. you know, it was something which will not come back 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 problem. i just, you know, you need to take you out. maybe one week you again, please. so before that happened to me, you know, of course i went to look pretty good. so i let you know, it was nothing like that,

you know, so i say that let me go. so it wasn't, it was, it wasn't worth it at all. let me just put up was to that i've come quickly to bob . ok. he has such a smart, young man, and by the way, i got relations. and when in the i talk, i see the start of the year. i mean, this is a business is started 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 up, go into 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 telling might be that to go back to my master, then hopefully find a job and then coming back just to realize that this corporate close,

i can't do any application delay. ok. what's next? but being a person of idea 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 i want freedom. so i didn't, i didn't find people that i thought could help me get into that, looking for land. she found that for me, my solution was to set up my own business from a business background for my mom and my dad side. i don't know you went 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 else spoke to us about just really the different background. i mean, that can be when i was 6 because my father was an ambassador to the u. n. so i basically grew up looking like for many years were 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 husband passed away and didn't plan for that. but then again, life goes on and i realize that this 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, what, 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. as i got on the, i came through austrian airlines. the people in the airline 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's 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 wasn't 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 wasn't during covey that you have 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 excellent feelings, especially when you're starting a little with your own money? no money to look back. i mean really, okay. i'm just gonna tap into that and being the eldest in the phone. 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 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. whether i'm there or not, they're there benefiting from that farm land. i'm to me and how is it going for you? you seem to really be at ease, you know, the way she just see that and toys. 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 what you love? there's no place like home and yes,

i have made the right decision thing at home. and what i'm doing now, i feel i'm happy about it because i'm able to help people as well. i'm doing so much. i mean, it is, it's, it's the real estate industry, what i'm growing in it. i'm doing other things in addition to the, to the job. but there's so many people out there that i'm helping in terms of finding their way to solution. so for me, i am at my pick at the moment to be honest. what a great way to end those particular segment, because i've had 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 of the day. there is no place like home, and once 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 of said are good. now my city, grappa ali, chad,

a killer, it walks us through it. this is one going up us last activate. we always want to hear from my favorite. what is 2nd now, by the way, is the 2nd are market so chaotic, but was the chaos i hope? i believe you will love to see say, i couldn't. i sunday soon. and it is not the capital of banjo, however, it is a center of the country's culture economy. and it's booming. a la monica, well, the ship wait til a wrapper activist. and i want to welcome you to my city. several olympic photo corner at the river. pick you around please. around town. welcome ya to my city. it a all our pretty but still my city. welcome out. ali cham aka killa, ace, as deeply connected to his west african homeland. the 35 year old was born here in the district of challenging and sarah condis east. and he lived here today with

a population of around 365000 sera conder, as the biggest metropolitan area in the gum. yeah, that's also the country's cultural and economic half killer, east laughter. local proteas are besser aquanda market in the heart of the city. do i know that goose? like them, amanda, and i'm calling with an agreement. will i? yeah, went across, i'm not sure. is it? the copper, what are my favorite troops 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 is my slide gives you a different test. sarah, couldn't, does, population is overwhelmingly young, but there aren't enough jobs for then. many are able to get by, by doing or jobs and even scotts killer ace struggled for a while as a cellphone. bender on a so called black market lossless

place, a lot of people survive over this place and especially the young people. and if you have 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 rough. he's also an activist. his experience at political injustice began when he was just 4 years old as family flair from the regime of former dictator. j, jama to day matter, states when he returned at the age of 15, he teamed up with a young people and all mice, demonstrations against a precedent in the westfield district. his commitment to justice later made him a target. i released a song quote, could book us a good to you, which means if you're part of the heard of couse, think it, they could be what ne ambassador and that song spoke against corruption,

the police brutality, the arbitrary arrest. and a lot of is that what happened and boom, 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 a spark to the come year in 2017. when the democratically elected president adama barrow took part, the country's boy economic situation still hasn't changed, but sir candice 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 my city got from it is just a big nobody cares about people go to the tourism is on a rise since sarah couldn't, the lives on the shores of the atlantic ocean kilometers of prestige. sandy beaches have made it an increasingly popular destination. of course, the locals also liked to relax and a beach in your free time. um our mama. yup. so welcome to la botto bits one of 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 having you guys, anyone know like to take everybody for watching it and hope that he confir dampier soon. which of my city is not all alfred, but it filled the math. it said you had to break up with when they printed like up that in of the fall for the little you pay the here with all really, really wanted was 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. t grow 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, when i was on instagram, facebook and you too, you can also drop me an e mail. i leave you with this beautiful song about africa enjoy in. i see you next

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