Surprising Europe

Many African mi­grants are strug­gling to make a liv­ing in Eu­rope in a bid to ful­fill the ex­pec­ta­tions of their fam­i­lies.

Some African mi­grants pay a high price to re­alise their Eu­ro­pean dream.

‘I came to Eu­rope and thought it was heav­en on earth.’

‘We can’t deny the fact that racism and dis­crim­i­na­tion ex­ist.’

‘When you are not a struc­tured per­son, Eu­rope makes you very mis­er­able.’

‘When I was in Africa, I be­lieved every­body in Eu­rope speaks Eng­lish.’

‘My mu­sic is from some­one who won­ders, tries to un­der­stand and thinks about his life, his back­ground, his iden­ti­ty.’

‘Be in­formed be­fore you come [as] all that glit­ters is not gold.’

‘Hip hop chose me to speak for all the peo­ple who can­not say what hap­pened to them, why they are suf­fer­ing.’

‘Job is every­thing in Eu­rope, job is the house, job is the food, so if you don’t have a job, you are a dead per­son.’