Nigeria's Pioneering Furniture Boss
The guiding principles of one of Nigeria's most successful businesswomen: "One, I was never going to pay a bribe and two, I was never going to sleep with a man to get a job".
Nigerian business woman Ibukun Awosika went from helping at her granny's salt stall to running her own furniture empire and becoming the chairwoman of a bank.
Mustafa Alhamoud fled Syria and ended up in a refugee camp in Greece. He tells us about the talent contest he set-up in the camp to lift the spirits of the other refugees.
Cuban DJ Leydis arrived in the US on a small rickety boat and ended up playing at the White House.
Nancy Rose is a retired high school teacher from Canada who is nuts about squirrels. We hear about her unusual hobby of taking photographs of them on miniature sets in her garden.
(Picture: Ibukun Awosika. Photo credit: TY Bello.)
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