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a difference to society. after settling in the country, we find out what challenges they face and why they chose gone up about the u. s. also coming up in the program. we look at the samba rama down nairobi where members of kenya, somali community are celebrating the spice. the cost of living crisis has still saving what yeah. family buckled on meets that each town kids can. yes. internet sensation speaking truth to power. there's nothing they cannot do and no one is safe from dea. lemme came out to stream with i am eddie micah junior and you are welcome to the program. it's a good feeling returning to a place called home, isn't it? especially, depending on where you left in the 1st place. i 2 years ago, booker,

i'm in surgeons attacked and killed civilians in, in garrett, i am in northern nigeria is born, a state survivors were forced to flee. the town was left in ruins until the local governments, with support from agencies, rebuilt, and reopened it. now, 6 months after people returned, what men are playing in major role in your newly rebuild community. that you and flew in did of use of marco coin to find out more meat was man, he's the 1st baby to be born in the rebuild village. he is a sign of hope of the future that live here his returning to normal. but it's a new normal says his mother been to one where the women in the village are taking a far more active role than before. she's taking training on how to spot abuse and domestic violence. she's a member of the village, new human rights defender committee. that is when asking that in we are the women

of this community. we're the ones in charge and we defend each other chatting as i was born and raised in this community. and i married here to 14 years ago, i know the men and the women in this community who no, no, i'd be lying. if i were to say they're someone who's problems, i don't know. that is, i know every one to is one of many women taken on a new role in the rebuild village this about why does all one haven't returned back to the our community. these we men are now chatting because for a new life for themselves, their children, a members of the community, they said they had the responsibility to do so, while supporting one another through their work. and in moments like this, what am i donna one a while? some of our women are widows out. we mccarthy, she's got some others have husbands who are alive sick that they would know me. she

was at yale. so some of our women farm more than the men do about a woman. but one man has more than 10 children, but he's so sick he can't care for them busy. i'm with him again. my dilemma, if the women didn't help me in life would be difficult. you know, my get a one when so we take charge here. * down yeah. what again, when can we help our husbands and farm different property does this here? when is your car and neck ali every week been to meet with. although we met a time to bond and share ideas when that time, what is the women or the community? me twice a week to get advice. we decide on the work that needs to be done to move our community forward. maniac, how much we discuss our finances. what do we do to avoid being cash strapped to? we also advise our younger girls not to be lured by men. they would take advantage of them with money for the somebody said them, but the locally half saw to is also taken on a new rule as head of her household and bus of her little shop. she has 7 children

and a husband who is seek. it is working, she says, oh well nobody come since i left the camp. i've been running my business and i'm happy. my business feeds my family. it pays my children's fees. even hospital bills when they're sick. everything comes from my business properly. i am the husband that i am also the wife my husband is old and can help much anymore. so i am the sole provider for all of us. 8 but he, i came over in am a co man at he won't get here in got an m children are going to school and every one has basic amenities. more than 1000 people are finding a new re them here. the threats of violence has not disappeared. but there is hope for the future new hope for the future, often, garron, i am from on this. let's bring in lenient sick throughout our she's

u. n. d p area coordinator for bonham and was directly involved in the projects. hello, lilian. welcome to the program. we just saw how been t and have sought to rebuild india. community one half traditionally played a strong role in northern nigeria. but what's new in, in garner m yes. full. and i know previously the main need is where men that used to sit around and discuss and chat the ways or how the community will be able to progress and move forward with the regional stabilization facility. and this application committee that has been set up to create more platform for voices were meant to be able to speak. they are also able to bring the voices of the women from within the community to that platform to add to the development of the community. people also to be able to take back what the, the discussion by the leaders within the community to the people to be able to help them move forward. and it's also given women opportunities in terms of livelihood

and sat in the household income on a steady project trajectory to be able to help themselves and their children. so it sounds like the experience of fleeing and n returning home has made the women of the community even stronger. how has not been received by the community. this has been very well. we seem to be that the community. i remember when we initially went to do the needs assessment in terms of how we would be able to support the community to be able to establish itself back to what you choose to be. even the men then wanted us to ensure that the voices of the women i heard and a lot of them because he had lost their husband's the primary care provider. they've been able to pick up those rules to be able to support the community. and the people and the voices that being and the people are happy about this. ok,

the community we see now is rising from the us is often gone um that it was destroyed by book or hiram, how safe are people there now? currently, people are safe as safe as they can be given the other issues in terms of the security within their beach and that is both. there have been no attacks and as i mentioned that people feel safe as the perception. so be said 9 percent of dental se, but even it's been established close to a neighboring community. and from our discussions and some discussions together with the people within that community and the people in government community as well. it was able to show that then people that neighboring community called martha, i feel safe in terms of the, because of the move of the people within that community. we've been able to provide

a loan of security infrastructure around the community and collaboration with the state government and the military, which includes the trench ah, around the community that approach around 6 kilometers. we have been able to put watch towers increase the presence of the military, but back police presence. so all those documents to get a walk in with the community, police and structures that have already been put in place at the security of the community. and these fabulous patient it's ease and human rights defenders also provide information to the security forces and help to ensure that the security okay. a lot of work husband on lennon sit throughout our u. n. d, p or coordinator for bonus to thank you very much for your time. thank you. still on the issue of returning home, let's go to ghana. but your return as an initiative that began in 2019 ghana has

been calling on africans in the diaspora to return home. hundreds of especially african americans have already relocated and our arden's value to the our communities and the economy. our report isaac allergy spoke to some other attorneys in accra ah, learning to make your own moves. these kids are out of school. but instead of hanging around, they are picking up life lessons, playing chess at this center in chaco, a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of our cra. patricia wilkins is the founder of the center, raised in queens new york. 20 years ago, she treated her wolf read job in the fashion industry to settle in ghana. she says her own experiences growing up in spite her decision to stay and hope children hear . our mission has been consistent and matters to alleviate poverty,

to provide access to education, empower women and children. and we do that to educational support on our work is very important because we're in a community where i'm school enrollment is very low. schooley tension is also low. wilkins wig has enabled kates especially girls access digital skills to empower them for the future. and women from the local community also benefit from her fresh and business expertise, given them extra income for family upkeep. wilkins initiative is just one of several african american investments in gannon. there are black americans in this country that have been here for 50 years, and i'm bill bakeries, quite big shop classing, and has provided jobs and skills to people. there are people who are tor companies, they are people who are on schools. so we have a long line of on a history of americans that have come back to what we believe is i'm on the land

and come back and invest it, turn on. so free uncle, my it trained lawyer is among the new west african american reset list in ghana. she's originally from mississippi and 1st came to ghana on holly d. she fell in love with a continent and then with a gun in to whom she is now married. tanya is like an ambassador for ghana. she hopes are the african americans of receipts and said so here. i am contacted all the time by people who have questions, who want to know what it's like will want to know. you know what the process is for getting the residency and things like that. so. but yes it if there's something to be fed for belonging and here we belong. we just bland and like anybody else he known or has but she has to one many of those who come to her for her face, relocating about the hard facts of life here. here you got to have money,

so i tell everybody when you're coming here, make sure you have a steady source of income to sustain yourself. i because there are no safety nets, like what we're accustomed to in the where. so really that's why family is very important here and being connected to someone. so you know, that's how that is the social safety net. here is your family, your friends and family. at least 1500 african americans have moved to ghana since the country launched its year of return campaign in 2019 many more members of the diaspora have made the journey of reconnection visiting some of the places from where africa with st out a sleeves. analysts say the country must boot on the success of the campaign to attract more people. and some countries have taken it further, like if you appear diaspora and bonds financing huge projects and so on. so those

are things probably gonna need to look out to her, how to bring the diaspora on board to begin financing projects, et al. african related for patricia wilkins. moving to the continent has brought fulfillment which indicates and yet opportunities grow. journeymen are from a cra as the allo summary. see you of the in crowd group an author of the book be smart guy repatriation guide. a lot yellow. great to have you on the program. so you are in america and traced your ancestry to the full on the people of more than denied zeria and the arctic people of gabor. but you mostly live in gonna break down your journey of finding yourself for us. well, it's a continual journey. so i'm still finding myself, if you would say, but i'll say that, you know, i grew up in a household were africa,

talking about africa. learning about africa as a continent was the norm. so, my 1st time in africa was 988. i might be dating myself a bit and i had travel to mostly francophone countries from learning, you know, traditional west african dance, drum and cultural arts. and i found myself in ghana in 2014 for the 1st time. i'd like to say that god in my spiritual home but, but i'm a son of all african. okay. i mean, from what i've read and no, you seem to have settled in pretty well in got a question though, is does everyone manage to integrate as well as you've done? how many give up and returned to the us, for example? well, i don't have the statistics, right, and i don't have the numbers. i know one of the things that i've seen and i don't

necessarily have the data to back this up with somebody can challenge it, is that i feel like i may have seen more. and i hate the word failure, but more failure stories than success stories. and i think that has to do with cultural orientation, right. gonna is a place that very proud of its culture, has a lot of different cultures and cultural norms here are into we into everything, into business, into everyday life. so it's like everybody here, very welcoming everybody here, very polite and we'll greet you. but once you move here, spend more time here. you'll find that is not as simple as just oh, you know, going through the d m v, let's say about the washington d. c. to renew my life is like, you know, it's very much a place that still developing with regards to its process. so if you're not from me

or if you don't, if you haven't had an appropriate cultural orientation. and if you haven't spent enough time, just kind of learning the lay of the land, i think you're going to have more challenging than the average person who may have spent time learning that that makes sense, right. ok, you know, with you talking about some of the general challenges that it's faith when one is relocating it backs this question. you know one is probably wandering now. why? what an american citizen leave his country to settling down when the u. s. seems to be the ideal destination for many. so why did you leave i left for peace of mind. i left for a better opportunity and i know i'm not, well, i can't say that i know, but i feel like i have a better chance for being killed by a gun violence in washington dc. and i do in government. and that's not because i'm

involved in things that are involving gun violence is just a part of america. it's a part of what happens in america, and i feel like i'm likely to be harassed and have bodily injury by the police. while i'm here also that there are industries and opportunities that people of african defense in it's document that historic, historically have been locked out of that are open to us here in ghana. of course the cost of living is lower. and one of the simple fact that people remark in these are people of high regard, whole bunch of superstars come to gonna, one of the things that people is black people have rarely been to a place where everybody looks like them. and just think about the fact a logical effect of being in a place where everybody looks like you just belong that alone. so i moved here for a number of reasons. i moved here because i felt like this is the place where i wanted to leave my legacy for my family. my children have been here,

my wife travel back and forth here with me. i also moved here because i saw various business opportunities that i thought may fit for me to come in. and for me specifically, i've aligned myself with my life mission. so i know right, that the reason why i'm here on earth is to help people of african to connect with the continent. i think it does something for us. i think it's very empower, you know. so. busy ok, that's what we need here specifically. ok. the summary feel of the in crowd group and also the book is smart guy, re appropriation guide. thank you. i for this year, the holy month of ramadan coincides with their cost of living crisis and a severe drought in east africa. in kenya, muslims make up 11 percent of the country's population, and many are struggling to find the food to break their daily fast in easily muslim

residence, told deed of you that busier they still pan gord for what little the have for the celebration. and for the family back home, andrew i c. k and maria. mula report from nairobi. ah worship is thrown near ruby's jamia mosque. they are celebrating the holy month of ramadan. though the past 12 months have been challenging for many muslims, mazda or malicious ramadan is difficult. food has gotten so expensive. it's hard to feed the family. the cost of living is very high. the cost of food and fuel has sort the price of the 25 kilogram back of rice has almost doubled in a year. rising inflation and youth unemployment drove many canyons on to the streets in recent weeks. widespread anti government protests have shown how deep the frustration runs a position to relo. dinger called off the potus after

president william router promised, improve negatively promised that people have heard before by lowering the cost of living was router's main campaign pledge. when he ran for office last year, who sort of le rudo told us he would lower the price of mayflower make life easier? i took that was only to get votes from us gala quite a little girl thought of. so when riley tells us to go up to protest, i like we do it online because we relied to about to leave dungan. you fly too, and left hungry. people tell us they've had to cut back drastically often only having one meal a day. while the daily struggle is overshadowing ramadan celebrations, families living here acutely aware that their relatives back home faces and bigger problems. some of them have only water to break their fast. because the longest route and record to stored back rubs somalis here are sharing what little they have

sending it via this money transfer service. no, i let our know so many of us have no meals to break the fast or to even begin the fast every day. as a muslim, you have to have these 2 important meals, so it's been very tough for them. they're saying here you cannot rely on the government. family and friends are the only real support network that many people have in tough times like these. however hard life may be by kids in conyers who rule my town are in to let him things keep them down. they each down, kids have become a global internet sensation. they use home made props to we create celebrity videos and have a huge following on social media. did up the news, africa met up with a young stars on location in nairobi for lex, marina reports from the hood. oh, meet the head so kids can as internet sensation, the group made

a name for themselves by mimicking the wild around the peer there being a parody or veteran canyon opposition? leader re latina? oh, that was anything do i? i felt so happy watching myself and the other people watching me again that encouraged me not to give up. let me say they give up. they not only make fun of politicians, but try to find topics that appeal to a wider audience. to on the liberal in pennsylvania, we usually check what content we put out there within the from a i'd say we mostly do family friendly topic on love ideas. usually come from me or from the kids point and that is our content made up of trending topics with something that impressed me online or something the kids saw on a tv program online and come and say they loved it. so we go for it. oh, good to me or not, did talk to her how it stole started out as just good fun,

but to know that i knew for their daily lives. nothing. i'm so happy to be in this group since it helps me make money which i use to buy sanitary towels. since a lack of sanitary towers is very common in our area, when i picked, you know, nice made a lot of money, which i've used to pay school fees. the money helped me a lot. it help my family to live, to pay rent. we use the money to buy food. every coin i made, it's been put to good use i for the group members. kitch toll has also given them a sense of bypass. it could have been any keeping. thankfully this group keeps me busy. then i avoid things like drug abuse or early pregnancy because i know if i wasn't busy, i might have gotten involved in these things. but the janitor's tandem has not been shot of challenges. neither by thou i sometimes you find kids have come to at and they've not even had a meal at home. they start with morale law, but slowly that energy goes down. wish. yeah.

ah. so hit. so kids is not just an internet physician, but a group that has math at the, at all mimicking public figures, celebrities and other notable figures in the society. they have dreams for here and beyond for their future. in a while at that glen, i want to beat an actor that on the i did the biggest out they knew vice feature group in this group has a bright future. my but good actors, actresses and engineers. all of them lie. i knew what, what up our vision is that people will come here to source talent. my only she, that's it. well, if you want to take out more of our stories, go to d, w dot com slash africa, or visit us on facebook and twitter will leave you with pictures of the faithful in

cape town, who are blessed to break the rama. done fast. see you next time i find out ah ah ah, with

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