Suprising Europe TV Series - 9 episodes
Episode 9: Home Sweet Home
Is home the place where we were born, or where we find our loved ones? A tough question for African migrants in Europe.
PepeSoup: This is Africa
This week's soundtrack is by PepeSoup: This is Africa. Watch their video now!
SE music team live @ The Hague
Watch the SE music team perform their songs at the Surprising Europe launch!
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Africans who come to Europe. How do they do it, passing border controls and dangerous seas?
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Many Africans dream about a better life in Europe. But who realizes this European dream?
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Once in Europe, African migrants have to make ends meet. How do you survive with or without papers?
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The family in Africa expect you to send money back home. How far do you go to earn your money? There are sacrifices to make.
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What is it like to live in Europe with an African identity? Does integration have its limits, or are we going native?
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How do you survive in Europe without papers? If you don’t exist for the law, you run big risks. Like being treated as a criminal.
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What to do when you are mistreated as an African immigrant in Europe? To take action is the least you can do.
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Where will you be the happiest and most successful? Some African migrants have good reasons to grow old in Europe.
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Is home the place where we were born, or where we find our loved ones? A tough question for African migrants in Europe.
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‘What is happening, are they trying to kill me with tomatoes?’ Baba from Ghana is not sure what’s going on in Buñol, Spain.
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Heartbeat detectors, CO2 measurement tools and sniffer dogs: UK border control is tight on detecting stowaways in trucks between France and Britain.
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Sister Fa from Senegal is happily married to her German husband. But not all her Senegalese friends are that fortunate.
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Dayo from Nigeria and Ferhan from Somalia travelled to Malta by boat. Dayo: 'I don't even want to remember the sea'.
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Turid from the Netherlands fell in love with Moussé from Senegal when she was staying in Senegal.
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Africans in Europe share their experiences about racism. Musician Adé Bantu set up the collective Brothers Keepers.
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How does Michael survive on the streets?
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Wonda Wendy was born in France but raised by Gabonese parents. To get to know her roots, she lived in Gabon for some time. Her track 'Best of both sides' expresses this double life.
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Yury Fontes da Cruz (Angola) a.k.a. Puto Cossa is one of the rising stars in the kuduro scene in Lisbon.
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This track by Scor.pi.o is the soundtrack of the first Surprising Europe episode
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PepeSoup: Afrobeat from Italy, by DJ Cukiman from Rome and miss Annie from Liberia.
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K-Nel is a Kenyan-German hiphop artist from Cologne. Listen here to the track he wrote for the series.
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For the Surprising Europe launch, all artists featuring in the series performed in The Hague, Holland.
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