(250724) -- NAIROBI, July 24, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan acrobat Mathias Kavita (1st L) instructs a child to practice acrobatics in Thika, Kenya, on July 11, 2025. Slightly before his 12th birthday in 1983, Kavita's journey to China to study acrobatics under a government scholarship marked a turning point in his life, ushering him to a brave new world of cross-cultural interactions and enduring friendship.
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