Columbus Igboanusi did not come to Slovakia from his native Nigeria to set up an antiracist human rights organization. “I didn't understand racism then. I hadn't experienced it in my country,” he says. That changed the day he was assaulted and badly beaten by racist skinheads.

After hearing his experience was not unique among other African students, he formed an organization of African students against racism. That's when another reality hit him.

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