serious master, ah, it is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre and no, it is not the mona lisa. it is the virgin of the rocks, 2 versions, multiple copies, and a hidden drawing. is there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand today which for answers to february 10th on d, w. ah, 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 misery, the son of homecoming riding the tag review is spotify the very 1st time all the

way from the gambia? let get this, you're rolling into this program. we get up and close with an active if 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 robert ali, john, aka a killer, is take that on a whirlwind trip to the city we call santa welcome back. oh, i forgot he'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 gardeners, the 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 saw africa. 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 gun and 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. ask that in grades and was they stats of a fashion industry because you couldn't find on the time style is a struggle to give me up. parties 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,

the 7 years i left the shows i'm gonna, 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 am, 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 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 useless to 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 his head. you're ready for the move as soon as you london whittaker, he leave the you and america mindsets there or lifestyle, and then you tick 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 fonda, of porpoise for the man. i see in the world, headquartered in free town to rally, owned by the organization, operates in over 90 countries with one ambition to empower women. so that they can re make the world when you leave in 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 of that. 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. purposeful this

organization, we can be shown to re nick the world. we and for girls, up up a school girls, unrestricted access to money out because pretty simple. money is park. here's the money we was wanting to girls and feminists, and on, by, in our groups here in and around the world. i was born in the neighborhood committee who were 6 years old, the war in this country, kids. and so in a sense of our childhood was in shrubs and by the noise of my son then friday 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 cloud based in new york, travel to dana, to lebanon, disconnected stories of young people. and again, i had to hard to put 2 stories together and present that to the scary part of the united nation. 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 dana was driving me and i was like, yeah, i'm just backing up now. i had back next more of my family and i kid you not. he pulled over his stocks 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 and yeah,

you don't belong here. you belong here. you though. so when you walk in the united mitchells, you do not is good. why do you want to go back to africa? because people, you don't want to be not open your children. do that for you. he did make me think the reason i want to move from new york and i want to say that i thought i did not want to be in a society any more. what i will be complicit in my own dehumanization. i don't want to push my own money. that's what my wife and i agree, and sell in my humanities. no question. i'm a person, i'm a human being. and that's taken for granted. and that's really important. you 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 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 address

is not in fact or not. so when you come back here, you put in that the work that used to fit in step 5. and you will be surprised at your bought your ability to adopt our ability to make change. watching people like you know more and i wonder what my plan for the future are a pope was really does the find you just like it defines the 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 resume for a relatively young country, which has seen a lot, i believe, developing countries and culture. so in a 2nd, us efforts will go a long way in giving the youth that identity preferred to me,

and i've heard the parent gallery in green. i've a platform to look for the addition, the actually reserves, my name is summer condo, and i'm the founder and executive director of 252, and i was born and raised me burly, specifically one of my 3rd memories during the online site. they have lakes and i notice i do have mom and, and he is so the combination of that will attack and assign carry connie environments after high school i left and went to china for city and i was there for 6 years. i university because after our school project canine,

healthy i later found 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 from china in the 2014 because i wanted to contribute to the change was happening. that's why i started person i actually exhibit and then sell their work and then making hard to viable option. i believe that i can be a cookie for change. oh yeah. carted out for them so. so in culture, my to be going to dance. who wants to come back to really great

general come we, we don't community willing to comment as a whole continent by itself. you have to work with people. you have to collaborate with people. you have to understand people, combine with them and intellect. the now to 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 and being in this home coming edition. i'm super excited to start this conversation. of course we didn't 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 as what business development relations manager. so i'm talk to me about you experience, how was 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 for me was quality of life. one being you believe? 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 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. you know, because before i left you and i was not having enough information, i 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 discouraged. you know, 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 the journey, did you feel that you want to come back home? i think that you came back voluntarily. i came through but before voluntary it was very tough. you know, it was something that you know, that you know, if you don't come back over that you might decide there. so you had no choice but to come back home because sometimes they will, they will dispose of me, you know, you need to take you out maybe when we get to class. so before that happened to me,

you know, because we had to look politically like 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 a plus to that. i can 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 he 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. so finishing university, all you want to do is find a job of straight up, 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 my master's and hopefully find that 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 into 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, when a comfort i will like freedom. so i didn't, i didn't find people that i thought could help me getting to that, looking for the land. she found that for me, my solution worse do side of my own business from them from addresses background on both from my mom and my dad side. as you're into the us when you were 10 thinks right. and. and then you decided to come back at a time when people, when are you 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 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 wanted 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 and do it? 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 austria 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 there 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 wasn't during cove. it that you had to come back and get stuck in the country and not have to go by. would you have hoped for a different situation? how do you feel about being it's mixed feelings, especially when you're starting a little with your own money. no money to look back at and rely okay. i'm just

going to tap into that and being the eldest in the phone, there was just come to you quickly. i joya 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 to where 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 likelihood. i see whether i'm there or not, they're benefiting from that farm. the lad, 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 poised. 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're lo, 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 a 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 healthy in terms of finding their way to solution. so for me, i am at my peak at the moment to be honest. what a great way to end this particular segment. because i've gotten 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 ali job a killer is walks us through it. this is one that up us last activate. we always learn to hear from my various what is circle now, by the way, is the 2nd are market so okay. i'll take by it was the chaos. i hope. i believe you will love to see sarah good night 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 home world to show boy a rapper activist. and i want to welcome you to my city. several telling being photo colonel had to river. pick you around places around town. welcome you out to my city a all that pretty, but it's still my city. welcome. yes. ali cham aka killer. as deeply connected to

his west african homeland, that 35 year old was one here in the district of ta linkedin. and sarah couldn't deceased. and he lives 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 cody's for the 2nd. the market in the heart of the city. do i mean we'll just use like them? i don't wanna go that route. yeah. wanna trust them? we got so just to cover one of my favorite foods out here that has the sour taste and you add a were salt lake. i thought i put some salt and pepper and some sugar, to have the sweet and sour, you know, in michigan. and, you know, it was nice like, gives you a different tense. sarah, couldn't dest population is overwhelmingly young, but there aren't enough jobs for them. many are able to get by,

by doing or jobs and even scots keller, a's struggled for a while as a cellphone vendor on the so called black market lossless 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 have taken 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 warm. believe in themselves, because killer is, isn't just a rougher. he's also an activist. his experience with political injustice began when he was just 4 years old as family flare from the regime of former dictator, geometry they night as states. when he returned at the age of 15, it teamed up with other 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 quizzical book as a good to you,

which means if you're part of the herd of cows, think it was if they could be one day, i'm glad you know. 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. bye to deal with this law for his homeland ross killer east, but they come here 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 town. a typical working class neighborhood is kind of with by the kids, but what people gum tourism is on a rise since sarah couldn't the lies from the shores of yeah, flaunting, ocean kilometers off 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 mama. yup. so welcome 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 having you guys in one. no like to take everybody for watching it and hope that you come to the ambulance in which my city is not all alfred would have filled them off. it said you had to break open when they came in like a battle in the fall for the little you paid a few years on what i really, really wanted when the involvement of the african dias were in the continent, 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. yeah. antique 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,

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