africa, 60 minutes on d. w. a global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make sydney screener? how can we protect habitat? we can make a difference. global ideas, environmental series in global 3000 on t, w, and online africans . they're leaving behind our lives in the west and breaking barriers in their countries of origin. if at the sound of the 77 percent would be looking at just that while come to his place at the sound of homecoming riding the tag review is spot to for the very 1st time all the way from the gambia let get lucille rolling in today's program we get up and close with an activist who wants 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 call south welcome back. now i forgot is 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 ghana, 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 bala is. how was our 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, they're wearing slate magazines, and i'm somebody was 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 fashion week. and then the great style awards asked that in grades 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, the 7 years i left the shores of ghana and when i finished 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 80 astaire 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. there is not something that you could get funding for, so it has to come from your savings. and so i started it 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 treating 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 burns, who are hoping to move back home, is to misha. them mentally up his head. you're ready for the move. i soon as you luck, whitaker, he leave the europe 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. 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 as this, the biggest thing is the mindset to be ready for the move. i nowadays home base live, right, 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 the c. o. i'm fond of what was for the man. i see no world headquarters 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 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 code seal purpose. purposeful organization can be shown to renew the world. and for girls are papa school 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 hearing say, 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 there's no sense of our childhood was interrupted by the noise of my son then rabbit college, which is so sign up for those old se of us. and then right off side graduated in 2006. i had an opportunity to be talking with united nations 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

dana to lebanon, just connected stories of young people. and again, i had to have to put those stories together and present that to the united nation. 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 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. he stopped. i just called again mad. 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 don't. so when you walk in an office in the united middle, you do not is good. why do you want to go back to africa to 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 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. i know we, we sit in the west and we compton about how 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 had to work hard to fit in to make it work. so you are more likely gain some skills, some knowledge that i guess. yeah, yeah. if not, in fact, when i think so when you come back here,

you put in the 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 burgundy studied in china before returning to open the country's 1st permanent gallery in the capital region for our relatively young country, which has seen a lot, i believe developing the countries and culture. so in a 2nd, us 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 summer

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 the county county environment after high school. i left and went to china for 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 cookies for change. oh yeah. carted out for them. 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, so combined with them and intellect now it's our conversation that i had with for really and young gumby and who's studied abroad, came back home, decided to do different things in agriculture. so my in real estate, what others are doing in 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 here. i know what business development relations manager, so i've talked to me about you 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 will actually come in. i mean, let me just come to you quickly, elijah, 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 european 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, i would be johnny, you know, rims, you know, so i just talk of my things, you know, have small money. you know, i was bringing business before you before i left. so luther, you know, my mind was going to europe, you know, because i was just great year, you know, because of some problems too. i have to watch my business. so i, when i was at best 5 countries before i read to libya, but you know, it was very difficult at what point during this 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 come back if you don't come back, i end up with that. you might die there. so you had no choice but to come back home because sometimes they will, they will get this problem, let me know you need to pay it, take you out, maybe when we get into place. so before that happened to me because i went to look pretty good. so i left, you know, it was nothing like that, you know,

i think it was, it was, it wasn't worth it at all. let me just put a plus to that. i 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 busy 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 to 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. i think 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 glow, i can't do any obligation delay. ok. what's next?

but being a person of idea bank, every idea i have to, i look 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 like open ended 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 on both from my mom and my dad's side as you're into the us when you were 10. thanks. right and. and then you decided to come back at a time when people, when are you when talking about having solar panels in farms for agriculture besides that, in fact, you have a different degree in something else. talk 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 wasn't 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 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 like during cove, it that you had to come back and get stuck in your country and not have to go by. would you have hoped for a different situation? how do you feel about being it feelings, especially when you're starting 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. 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 in the land. i'm telling 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 what you know, please like 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 a real estate industry what i'm growing in it. i'm doing other things in addition to the job. but there's so many people out there healthy in terms of finding their way to solution. so for me, i am at my p at the moment to be honest. what a great way to end this 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, but i think the data 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 upset are good now my city lab, but ali john

a k killer. if walks us through it. this is one wrap us last activist 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 goodnight sunday soon. and it is not the capital of banjo, however, it is the center of the country's culture i economy. and it's booming. philharmonic on world to ship boy to live a rapper activist. and i want to welcome you to my city, several olympic photo corner at the river. pick you around places around town. welcome you out to my city a all that pretty, but it's still my city. welcome. yeah. i'll come aka killer. as deeply connected to his west african home that 35 year old was born here in the district of telling. and sarah condis and he lived here today with

a population of around 365000. so we're kinda, it's the biggest metropolitan area indic. um yeah. it's also the country's cultural and economic hub killer laughter look good use of the 2nd the market in the heart of the city. do i know that you like them and have them go well, and i know that his group will i yeah. what address i'm going to so listen to cover what are my favorite foods out here that has the sour taste and you add your salt lake. i thought i put some salt and pepper and some sugar to have the sweet and sour, you know, i mission. and you know, it was nice like gives you a different 10th sarah condemn. population is overwhelmingly young, but there aren't enough jobs for them. many are able to get by, by doing or jobs and even scotts keller east struggled for a while as a cellphone bender, under so called black market. i saw

houseless places, 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 up military indian see for go to europe and you believe that the young people really do want to do something. i believe that my music is why it does 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 damage to the matter states. when he returned at the age of 15, it teamed up with a young people and organized a mustache and against a precedent in the westfield district. i. his commitment to justice later made him a target. i released a song quite cool book as a good to you, which means if you're part of the heard of couse, think it 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? and during 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 deal with this law for his homeland ross killer east, back to the cumbia in 2017, when the democratically elected president adama barrow took part, the country's boy comic situations tool 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 a town. a typical working class neighborhood is kind of with nobody. but what people come to me 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 locals also like to relax and a beach in your free time our, our mama. yup. so welcome to la battle beats,

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 in one. no, we like to take everybody for watching it. and hope that you come to jam newson, which is my city, is not all alfred. what a field ma city who said, who had to break open when they printed like a battle in the fall for the little you played a few years on what football will be recorded. when the involvement of the african dias were in the continental development has increased over the past decade. people like the ones we focused on in this special edition of homecoming. have a gauge. yeah, antique role 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, facebook add you to. you can also drop me an email or leave you with this beautiful song about africa enjoy. and i see you next time,

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