• Up for a challenge: It took Oussouby Sacko 16 years to rise through the ranks at Kyoto Seika University, where he was elected president last month. 'I didn't have equal opportunity,' says Sacko, 'but I forced myself to block that out.' | NICHOLAS SEAGREAVES
    Up for a challenge: It took Oussouby Sacko 16 years to rise through the ranks at Kyoto Seika University, where he was elected president last month. "I didn't have equal opportunity," says Sacko, "but I forced myself to block that out." | NICHOLAS SEAGREAVES
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The first part of Oussouby Sacko’s story, which was printed in Thursday’s newspaper, can be found at bit.ly/jtsacko1.

Upon graduating from high school in his native Mali, Oussouby Sacko received a scholarship to study architecture in China. He would spend the next six years acquiring his undergraduate degree in architecture, mastering Mandarin and trying to stay out of the crosshairs of angry Chinese racists intent on causing Africans serious harm.

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