A 23-year-old Nigerian woman has
fled ritual violence inflicted on her in her home country
because she is an albino and graduated at Trento university in
northern Italy.
Speaking after becoming the first person to benefit from an
asylum seeker university programme and graduate in Comparative
European and International legal studies, Joy Ehikioya said
"this is a story of violence, of ancestral superstitions, and
still more violence. It is also a story of involuntary
emigration, something close to deportation. And, in the end, the
story of reclaiming one's own name: reclaimed, re-learned".
Ehikioya's bravery and determination enabled her to leave
Nigeria, where she was abducted and raped as an albino and used
in a 'magic' rite, and get into the University of Trento's
pioneering asylum seekers' programme.
The northern university offers the course entirely in English.
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