Long walk to graduation
24 April 2015 - 02:00
It was a 4000km walk to the graduation podium for an Eritrean man who crossed five borders on foot to pursue his dream of studying geography in South Africa. Yibrah Ghebreyohannes, 32, was so determined to study geography in South Africa that, in 2010, when his country was plunged into war with Ethiopia, he fled and kept walking.
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