Sunny Akhigbi on Choosing his Freedom and Destiny Amid Hardships and Destitution
Lawrence is joined by Sunny Akhigbi, an unbelievably resilient survivor of trauma and destitution growing up in a small rural village of Nigeria. Despite his family trying to contain him in a horrific environment of hard child labor, he managed to get his high school education. He went on to get a college education regardless of almost dying from being caught in the gang warfare that threatened his campus. He persevered through the hardships, as his motto was "to get educated was to be free". Today he is the epitome of the American, immigrant success story. Sunny looks like a real life…
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