changing many things for the better. ah, the store for me? in 45 minutes on d. w. a saxophone operator, wrote her master's thesis on for potato ram to read a turn on. well, it gets more ridiculous from there. you don't use the true true list. a german, most recent and africans are leaving behind their lives in the west and breaking barriers in their countries of origin. if you shut off the 77 percent will be looking at just that. welcome to history. the center of homecoming riding the tag review is spot to for the very 1st time, all the way from the gambia. let get this,

you're rolling into this program, we get up and close within activists. once we empower women in cyril in bangle, the gambling capital, we caught up with locals. why one way or another ended up coming back and rob ali jam, aka a killer, is take that on a whirlwind trip to the city. we cause 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 gone as the biggest fashion and lifestyle media brand. now, that's what i call home coming in style. when i woke back to gonna my whole scene was to change the narrative of how people sole

african if all we are show in the west is how hungry you bala is. how was i destroy in us? want to come and invest in nothing. you 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 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 get me up but 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 shores of ghana and when i

finished my 1st degree at climate where you vis you of 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 say 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 there was 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, burns, who are hoping to move back home, is to misha. them mentally. you up with head, you're ready for the move. i soon as you learn back 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 are 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 on 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 and fonda of porpoise for the man i see in the world, headquartered in free town to rally, owned by organization, operates in over 90 countries with 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. my only going to be to want to walk to the u. n. 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's turnover. amaco founder and co c. u. s. purpose bottles true. this organization can be shown to re nick

the world for girls. up up a school girls, unrestricted access to money out because pretty simple. money is park. here's what we wanted 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, you know, sense of our child was upset by the noise of my son that from college we just sign up for this year and in right outside graduated in 2006. i don't know what changed to be working with united nations on a very special project that was looking at impacts of contacts. i'm sure it's

across the board at. wow. is that a job? i was busy me up to you. done that to lebanon, just connected stories of people. and again, i had to try to put those stories together and present that to the mission. i will never forget when i made the decision, 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, just backing up now i had back next more. my family and i kid you not. he pulled over. he stops. so i just called again mad. 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 don't saw where you walk in an office in the united middles.

your new knowledge is good. why do you want to go back to africa? people? yeah. it's not going to be nice. don't put your children to that. to 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 money. that's what my wife and i agree and say 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

gain some skills, some knowledge that i guess there, 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't people like to learn more? i wonder what my plans are feature on a pope was really does fine. you just like it defines someone's that in a condo, this lady from burn the study in china before returning to open the country's 1st permanent art gallery in the capital resume for our relatively young country, which has seen a lot, i believe, developing countries and culture. so in a condos efforts will go a long way in giving the youth identity. preferred some an art for current art 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 one of my 3rd my landscape online site. they have in the newest, i do have my 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 should be 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 of country and how they do what they do and their language, i think a 2014 because i wanted to contribute thing 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. and how does important so so in culture, my to be going to dance, who wants to come back to really after green general come we,

we don't community willing to and trying to sell it for commenting as a whole continent by itself. you have to work with people have to collaborated people, you have to understand people mainly 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 s. 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 a lady, the prospect well hire 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 management in front of me and i want to give back to my community and to be able to do that was 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 rims. 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 to you, but before voluntary it was very tough. you know, it was something which will not us. you know, if you don't come back, i end up with that. you might decide there. so you had no choice but to come back home because sometimes they will, they will do this problem. i'm just, you know, you need to take you out. maybe when we get into class. so before that happened to

me, you know, because i ran to look pretty good. so i left, you know, it was nothing like that, you know, so i say that 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 i just relatively 3 years ago 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 comfort i will it freedom. so i didn't, i didn't find people that i thought could help me getting to that locally for the land. she found that for me, my solution worse do side of my own business from them, from aggressive background, both from my mom and my dad's side. as you all are you into the us when you were 10, thinks right. and, and then you decided to come back at a time when people, when, when you, 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 story lately, different background. i mean, i left can be when i was 6 because my father was an ambassador to the u. n. so i

basically grew up with my formative 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 her 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 there's never a perfect moment to do something. you know, you're always waiting me like i want to do this. i want to do that. i said that i always want it to be a farmer, but i can't imagine doing it anywhere else but at home, at what, at what time in your life, did you decide to come back home? it was really, it was at the height of the impasse. you know, it was in 2016, the height of the impact december 16, 2016. as i got on the flight and 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 is a piece keeper?

i said, no, i'm going there. as a farmer. i think that must have thought i'd. i'd 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 you got to send money to your family if something happens or some emergencies, 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 like during covey, 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. i mean, really, okay. i'm just gonna type into that and being the eldest in the phone,

let me 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 decision 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 benefiting from that farm. and i'm telling me and how is it going for you? you seem to really be at ease, you know, to wish you 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 your low best no place like? and yes, i have made the right decisions 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 the real estate industry, but i'm growing in it. i'm doing other things in addition to the job. but there's so many people out there i'm healthy in terms of finding there is to solution. so for me, i am at my peak at the moment to be honest. what a great way to end those particular segment. because a lot and 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 do know that 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 too. now we are

almost at the end of today show, but if you want to see more upset are good. now my city club ali john a k killer. if walks us through it. this is the one that up us last activated. we always learn to hear from. my vision is what is circle now, by the way, is the 2nd are market. so chaotic by was the chaos. i hope. i believe you will love to see sarah goodness, sunday soon, and it is not the capital of banjo. however, in the center of the country's culture i economy and it's booming philharmonic on well the ship boy in the 8th rapper activist. and i want to welcome you to my city several kinda ellen, big puddle, cornel had to river. pick you around places around town. welcome you out to my city a. all that pretty, but it still my city. welcome. yeah. i'll come a k, a killer s as deeply connected to as west african homeland. the 35 year old was one

here in the district of telling. and sarah condis and he lived here today with a population of around 365000. so we're kinda has the biggest metropolitan area indic. um yeah. it's also the country's cultural and economic hub killer laughter look. could use the 2nd to market in the heart of the city. do i know that goose like them? i don't wanna go that route. well i yeah, what address? i'm not sure this is the copper. what are my favorite foods out here? that has the sour taste and you add, you were salt lake. i thought for some sort and pepper and some sugar to have that sweet and sour, you know, i mission. and you know, it's nice like gives you a different 10th sarah condemn. 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 east struggled for a while as

a cellphone vendor on a so called black market. a so has lost glazing, a lot of people survive over this place, and especially the young people. and if you look at all of these young people, like in contrast to those that are picking the mediterranean sea for go 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 warm believe in 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 organized a muster actions against a precedent in the westfield district. i. his commitment to justice later made him a target. i released a song called po box a gate to give, which means if you're part of the heard of couse,

think it was it that could be what an am placido. 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, ross killer, a spark to the cumbia in 2017. when a democratically elected president adama barrow took part, the country's boy comic situations till hasn't changed. but sir, 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 with more people got to be pick, 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 estimation. of course, the look horse also like to relax and

a beach in your free time, mama, our mom. yup. so welcome to lay back a bit. one of my favorite places in the gambia. you see the beautiful beach, the beautiful people having fun. and you know, there was really a great time having you guys in law will like to take everybody for watching it and hope that you come to gambling, which is my city is not all are pretty what a field math city said. you had to break oprah when they came in like a battle in the fall for the little you pay the curious on what i really, really wanted when the involvement of the african dias or 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 a gauge jan to 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, well, ours on instagram phase would add you to you can also drop me an

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