Afrophobia - Nativism - Xenophobia and Pan-Africanism

[Sabella Abidde]

“What is happening in South Africa, and in some parts of the continent, is a pushback against Pan-Africanism. A pushback against African unity. A pushback against an idea and a philosophy that untold numbers of continental Africans and the African Diaspora labored for… Do the xenophobes not know that the immigrants they condemn, maim, and kill do not have the real political and economic power in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, and in all the towns and cities in between? Those immigrants control less than 0.1% of the economy. Do they not know that those African immigrants are not their enemies and tormentors? They are not in charge of the tools and agencies that control the South African society…”

n  Sabella Abidde

Full Public Essay at:

https://www.thecable.ng/afrophobia-nativism-xenophobia-and-the-pushback-against-pan-africanism/