Africa: Afrophobia - Challenge to African Unity

Africa: Afrophobia - Challenge to African Unity

Column - One of the most troubling issues confronting the African continent today is the forced eviction and persecution of black African migrants in South Africa.

To be Black is to be foreign and Othered: Weaponising colonial borders to fracture PanAfrican unity

In South Africa and across the globe, systemic governance failures are being weaponized into rampant anti-Black xenophobia. This calculated ethno-nationalism forces oppressed communities to project their trauma inward, punching sideways at fellow Black migrants. Driven by the enduring architecture of white supremacy, the post-colonial nation-state thrives on this division—proving that until we unite, global anti-Blackness will destroy us all. Th…

Africa: Afrophobia – Challenge to African Unity

One of the most troubling issues confronting the African continent today is the forced eviction and persecution of black African migrants in South Africa. Following the June 30 quit notice issued by self-styled South African vigilantes to black African migrants, several countries, including Nigeria, have begun evacuating their citizens from the former apartheid enclave. This latest reprehensible development follows earlier waves of such attacks …