Kenyan rapper based in Germany K-Nel will be the host for an Al Jazeera TV documentary that features the lives of Africans in Europe. The documentary called Suprising Europe uses the soundtrack by the same name from the rapper.
The pilot for the 7-part series will started airing Thursday August 11, 2010 for the international viewers on DUTCH TV and will later be distributed in Africa.
The documentary addresses an African audience who need to be informed about what life is really like in Europe. It does this through candid and in-depth interviews with legal and illegal immigrants.
Hot Secrets got an exclusive peek at the first episode that follows the adventures of a Ugandan migrant named Ssuuna a successful photojournalist in Uganda who left his career for greener pastures in Amsterdam. He ends up looking for any job and ends up a housekeeper.
Others include a Ghanaian who lives on the streets and begs money to buy food but will never go home to his family – nor do they know that he is destitute. The series also addresses the rampant racism against immigrants and interracial dating.
It brings out the deeper human side of immigration and clearly sends out a message that Europe is ‘not the paradise it is painted out to be’, as one immigrant put it.
I can't wait to watch the documentary. I have travelled to Europe extensively and although I managed to make great friends, there are some incidents that left me cold and shocked. One was when we dipped in a hotel pool for a swim and all the white guests quickly left the pool to avoid any interaction with us. That was in Geneva, Swiss. Another shocking incident in Berlin, Germany, involved passengers in a train refusing to sit near me and would rather stand! I have also been turned away from entering a Club/Disco in parts of UK because I was not "properly dressed" although some whites in sneakers and jeans just like me were waved through! Of course many Africans who have not traveled extensively would be shocked by these "minor" incidents since we treat all our foreign visitors with decorum and respect. But what many of our locals would be shocked about is to find that Black Africans in Russia re hunted down like rats and shot using rifles by racist skin heads as this link elaborates..
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