A Reply To Azu Ishiekwene… What Shall We Do About South Africa?

By Okoye Sunday
Azu Ishiekwene asks the right question, and he is right that the World Cup answered it before any of us did. The hostility Bafana Bafana met in those stadiums was not football. It was a bill arriving.
I take his question seriously and respectfully disagree with part of how it is framed, and I offer what I believe the answer is.
First, a figure worth handling carefully.
The piece reports eight verified deaths of Africans linked to xenophobic attacks since June 2026. The source appears to be the statement by Nigeria’s High Commissioner, Femi Fani-Kayode, that Bishop Taiwo Michael Fakunle and James Uchechukwu Nwankwo were the seventh and eighth Nigerians murdered in S...