THE FOUNDATION OF XENOPHOBIA part 1

 

THE FOUNDATION OF XENOPHOBIA part 1

Xenophobia starts immediately history is either distorted or abandoned.

When leaders or rulers criminally try to hide the truth in the history of the people, xenophobia starts. The bitter truth about our South African brothers is that the criminals the government indirectly uses to execute the attacks on Nigerians don't know how much Nigeria contributed in the building of South Africa.

Let us return home. One of the reasons Nigerians flee the country is insecurity. When we condemn xenophobic attacks in the foreign land, do we really forget that it also happens here? Can we count how many times businesses owned by Igbos and Southern Nigerians have been destroyed in the North by fellow Nigerians? Can we count how many times people were massacred as a result of simple provocations? I remember the period a cartoon displayed in Europe claimed the lives of innocent Igbos in the Northern Nigeria. So what we read and watch about South Africa is not new to us. Worse still, are you in haste to forget the tension experienced in Lagos when PDP had upper hand in an election?

In Nigeria, history is continually distorted and silenced. In South Africa, that's also the case. This is the foundation of xenophobia.

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