fabianna is from coventry, where she lives with herjamaican mum.nd behavioural sciences. you know where you're going, so you have to play the part. it don't work overnight, just get up and say, "i'm going to be posh," you've been working towards this. you are not a follower, you are a leader. i'm a leader. yeah, you are. just a few weeks in, fabianna says she encountered racial discrimination from another student at a social event. the incident involved the use of a racial slur. when we were all drinking together, this boyjust said like a really ignorant comment, he said, "i'm too drunk to say the n—word." so that was something that, like, threw me off, because i had never really experienced someone outwardly saying something like that to me, i had never been called the n—word or anything like that. and just for detail, this happened on site at the university? yeah. and this was another cambridge student? yeah. so, it happened at girton, in a bar, when we were all drinking together, by another student. was this a white student? yeah, it was a white

and to give us their insights, meet fabianna, success and sharon.eir first term last october, i caught up with them a few weeks in. success is from manchester and studying medicine. for his nigerian parents, seeing their son study at cambridge is nothing less than a dream come true. back home in africa, when they maybe want to make fun of you, if you are studying so much, they will ask you, why are you studying so much, are you going to cambridge? so that tells you the position where cambridge is. it's a big thing for us. did you worry about what it would be like for your son, being at cambridge, as a black person? socially, is he going to cope? how is he going to cope, eating, feeding himself? what do you mean by that? well, they don't have african food there. will he continue to eat fish and chips every day? have you been eating fish and chips? burger, every day. so, these things have me concerned. cambridge has nojollof rice, and if there isjollof rice, there is nojollof rice. i was definitely worried. my first thought, initial thought, definitel

fabianna is from coventry, where she lives with herjamaican mum.sh, you've been working towards this. you are not a follower, you are a leader. i'm a leader. yeah, you are. just a few weeks in, fabianna says she encountered racial discrimination from another student at a social event. the incident involved the use of a racial slur. when we were all drinking together, this boyjust said like a really ignorant comment, he said, "i'm too drunk to say the n—word." so that was something that, like, threw me off, because i had never really experienced someone outwardly saying something like that to me, i had never been called the n—word or anything like that. and just for detail, this happened on site at the university? yeah. and this was another cambridge student? yeah. so, it happened at girton, in a bar, when we were all drinking together, by another student. was this a white student? yeah, it was a white student, a white boy. it really threw me off, because i was with another friend of mine that's also black, and we were just, like, we had never gone