Killing African brotherhood on the altar of xenophobia in South Africa

T his week, Nigeria started evacuating its citizens from South Africa. As it happened in the past, the country is taking its citizens out of the former apartheid enclave to safety. It is a necessay action coming at a time when Nigerians are being verbally abused, violently attacked, and cruelly debased by citizens of a country, whose freedom was secured by the contributions – resources and political will – of our fatherland.
It is indeed a black period for Nigerians and Africans as a whole. That South Africans are meting out xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other African nationals represents one of the greatest contradictions of post-apartheid Africa. It is a painful reminder th...