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Hello and welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. I'm Frey Lindsay.

And today we're talking about ambition and opportunity, access and exclusion.

As a young African, you feel like you have to keep proving yourself over and again.

You first have to prove that you're not dubious and then prove that you can speak English

and then prove that you're good enough to get a job,

and then in two years, prove again that you can speak English again.

Many young people around the world dream of studying or an academic career in the UK.

But today we're going to hear how many young African students and academics

are running into major barriers in pursuing that dream.

These mindsets prevail that are based on the assumption that excellence and quality must

always be associated with the global north.

And the global south stands for lack of capacity, lack of intellectual, capacity, lack of resources,

et cetera, et cetera.

That's all here on Business Daily.

My basic challenge was not applying to schools and being rejected, basically.

My challenge was more of a financial standing, like coming from a low-econ background family

where it wasn't easy to make ends meet.

That's Donatus. He's a young Nigerian academic from Edo State.

He wanted to study in the UK, but the UK's Immigration Ministry, the Home Office,

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