A Different World/A World Alike

A World Alike
Season 3, Episode 16
Airdate	February 15, 1990
Production Number	315
Written by	Susan Fales
Directed by	Debbie Allen
← 3x15 Success, Lies and Videotape	3x17 → That's the Trouble with You All
A Different World — Season Three

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A World Alike is the sixteenth episode of the third season of A Different World, and the sixtieth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Star: Dominic Hoffman (Julian Day)

Featuring: Abner Mariri (Kobie), Ron Mokwena (Mbubunni)

THEMBA: Leboh Ang Morake, Robert Hairman, Damia Satterfield, Carlos Spivey, Tracy Watkins

Plot Overview

Whitley meets Julian, an attractive exchange student from Georgetown who is part of Hillman's anti-apartheid group. Kim receives a scholarship that will solve her financial problems and allow her to gain work experience in a lab, rather than flipping burgers at the Pit. Unfortunately, Freddie discovers that the company funding the scholarship is a subsidiary of a corporation with investments in South Africa. Julian proposes a boycott; he angers Whitley by recommending that Hillman cut all financial ties with the corporation, as this would cost Kim her scholarship. Due to her father's health problems, Kim would have to work two jobs to stay in school. A young man from South Africa argues against the termination of scholarships, because he feels that the success of African American students serves as a beacon of hope to black South Africans mired in poverty and oppression. Kim decides to turn down the scholarship anyway. Whitley accepts a date with Julian.