Like many African students, 19-year-old Nigerian Brenda Majekodunmi had to flee the war the same day bombs started to rain down on Ukraine. The second-year medical student spoke to DW's Tabore Ovuorie DaughterOfMit about how she's faring in Germany.
Brenda Majekodunmi was a second-year medical student at Vinnytsia National Medical University when Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24 changed her life.
Not discouraged by the pains of abruptly having to leave Ukraine, she petitioned to have her academic transcript sent to her so she could continue with her education in Germany. "I was able to use like my WAEC results, and bring other things to apply for universities here," she explains, adding that her university credit book was the closest type of documentation she could produce. However, it was written in Ukrainian.
"I am a very determined person. For now, I am starting this degree. No degree is useless," she tells DW. "I can have three degrees if I want or four or even more, and at the same time try to learn the language." Many African students struggled to get onboard trains while escaping from Ukraine after Russia's invasionHer confidence in the future perhaps stems from the fact that she is used to her life taking unpredictable twists and turns: Majekodunmi had never had any intentions of studying in Ukraine in the first place.
Just two years later, she finds herself not in Nigeria, not in Ukraine but in Germany. A major war that would truncate her studies was not part of the plan.Image: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images"All I need do is get my bus ticket. It's free education. I am left to just having to pay for my rent and food, and I'm going to find a job and work," she tells DW with determination.Majekodunmi is rather used to having to deal with adversity on every corner of her life.
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