 My name is Julius Obaze. I'm from Nigeria. I've been in Italy for four years. I'm 31 years old. I came through Libya, to Italy, to Sicily, Sicily to Taranto. Taranto to Apprata. I lived in Prata before I came here. I decided to live in Nigeria because I was tired of the lifestyle over there. Nobody cared about you. The youth are dying for no reason. People die every day in Nigeria. Just like animals don't die the way humans die in Nigeria. The cage is like we cage a beast. When it comes out, you can feed on anything on the streets. They make us to be like a beast on the streets whereas we are not a beast. They give us bad names. Even here in Italy, people say Nigeria is bad because of our leader. They expose us to difficulties. They expose us to crime. They expose us to many things because if they could give us it, the security we need, the police protect our lives and properties, the government give us good jobs, good roads, good schools. I don't think the youth will go hard stealing, risking their lives. Many die in the sea, many die in the river, in the desert. Many in the jail for nothing. There is a pain for both the poor and the rich. Like this is my brother dying, this is my sister dying. They expose our sisters to prostitution. This is like a memory you can remember because where we came from was every day noise. We were like a madman, we don't have no choice. The madman have no choice. We are like a madman with no clothes, no shoes, no good hair. Sometimes you can ask me what's my name, I can tell you all that. We are like a madman, no choice. You don't have no choice, oh, why am I here? No, thank God I'm safe. That is what came to your heart first, I'm safe. You don't have no choice to say, I'm going to Reno or to England. No choice, I'm safe. That is what came first. It's a good memory to remember about life. Nobody can go back to yesterday. We should have gone back to our old age. It's more beautiful than growing up. Growing up you can do some kind of stupid thing again. Like when you were young, you used to play me cat. We used to, we don't bother about work. Like I don't have money. I want to be a daughter, like my first. But now when there's something you think about, it bothers you every day. I want to see my mommy, I want to do this, I want to do this. But when you are young, all they play, jokada tuti jamani. Like when they come to school and don't read, go play sometimes, sometimes you read. Life in the hood is very sweet. Not much, like coming to Africa, not much. But we have what give us body sometimes. But life don't comes the way you think it. And then you have to live your worry and move on sometimes.