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the inspiring story of Joy from the YouTube channel Tales of junubia an agripreneur
who moved back to South Sudan and started her farming business let's learn about cool Joy is
I am a salsa that is by nationality I was born in South Sudan at that time it used to be Sudan
before South Sudan succeeded from Sudan and my family had to move to Kenya because of the Civil
War that was going on at that time I was very young so I can barely remember how South Sudan
was at that time and that is pretty much where I grew up or spend to most part of my childhood life
I grew up in Kenya and learned kiswahili and the Kenyan culture went to school from primary school
to secondary school but during that time of course as a family I still as associate in his family we
were still my parents still taught us how to you know integrate back on our native South
Sudanese languages and a little bit about our culture so I studied until my secondary school I
and I got a scholarship that was able to take me to Norway and then from Norway I when I finished
my three-year program there I go to another scholarship that then took me to America
Joy had lived in the diaspora for over eight years but in 2017 she made the decision to
come back home what motivated the move and had she always known she wanted to
come back this is what she has to say about leaving the US and coming back to South Sudan
really the US is a developed country there are so many systems and structures in place compared
to Africa and my little contribution based on my experience and dedication that I got I
felt light was not going a long way compared to if I had put in the same effort and hard
work back in the motherland then I would be able to actually impact a lot more people
um so that is one of the things that actually made me come back home uh other things notwithstanding
such as um structural or racism in America and just like as an immigrant in America I
realized that you are actually there's a lot of systems that are put together to to to to to to
not accept you you know that you you have to skip through a lot of Hoops to be able to to survive
I know many of you may be wondering why agriculture let's hear what she has to see
agriculture is the future of Africa I think agriculture has the capacity
to develop this continent do not give up and actually just get started just
get started with where you are and with whatever small you have even if you have
a small garden in your home get started with that if you don't have that get started with
the knowledge we do have a lot of trainings in this Garden right now who are just coming here
every day to learn so that one day they can also get start their own businesses
with her passion for farming she was able to acquire a 19 Acre Farm in mangala County which
has given the beautiful name Ubuntu garden and has over 10 employees and many more trainees there
they grow crops like kale Orca zucchini peppers and much more here are thoughts on farming so far
because I believe that the world has made great strides towards food security and
hunger eradication but there's still a very long way to go and one organization
cannot achieve zero hunger if it works alone if we want to see a world free of
hunger citizens the government Civil Society organizations and the private
sector Must ALL collaborate to invest innovate and create lasting Solutions
so for those of you looking to coming back home here is some advice from Joy
my message to all my African brothers and sisters in the diaspora is that you know if
you are at a point in your life right now where you feel like you're still kind of torn apart
as to whether moving back to Africa is for you or not you know I honestly believe that moving
back to Africa permanently is not for everyone you know and if you've done deep introspection
and feel like maybe it's not for you that is not the end of the world it's okay take your
time because it's really not for everyone it requires a lot of soul searching it requires
a lot of shading of the fear and all that but that is not the end of the world like
I said because they still a lot of ways that you can still continue to stay connected to
the motherland I so strongly believe that every African or every person of African descent should
at least once in their lifetime visit African experience it for themselves visit Africa and
see it for them for yourself because it's a lot more different when you can't inexperience it for
yourself versus what you see on television and what you see or other people attending you who
have traveled to Africa come and see and feel it for yourself because it will give you an
idea of how the continent is truly is and the people of the continent and it might help you
with that process and that decision making as to whether moving to the motherland is for you or not
Joy has a goal to inspire or get at least 20 000 young Africans in the next five years to join
agriculture she has a YouTube channel called the tales of junobia where she showcases her
day-to-day work at the farm so please be sure to check out her YouTube channel and give her
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