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Xenophobic behaviour, that has erupted into violence, brutality, hatred and deaths in South Africa, of Nigerians, Somalis and other black Africans.

For years I have been talking to my African friends about the unusual xenophobic attitude against Nigerians from other Africans.

Every time I site examples and reasons, why I think most Africans have some kind of hatred or bias against Nigerians, they always say No it’s not true, or I’m imagining it.

I have had a lot of these discussions with Ghanaians, how some Ghanaians easily blame anything and everything on Nigerians, even when Nigerians have nothing to do with it, I’m not saying that some Nigerians are without blame.

I have had occasions, where I have had a conversation with a Ghanaian, for them to turn around and say, be careful of Nigerians, even when the conversation has nothing to do with Nigerians.

This Xenophobia against Nigerians is also evident, when you have a conversation with Sierra Leonian, Angolans, Cameroonians and even Liberians, that were recently liberated by Nigerians at high cost to Nigerians.

I was recently told by a Sierra Leonian girl, that she never trusts any Nigerian Man, I asked her how many Nigerian men had she had dealings with, she said none, except one Nigerian she went to college with and she never really spoke to him. She said, Nigerians are arrogant and she doesn’t like them. I replied to her, how, does she have, such a strong opinion about Nigerians, if she never had any direct dealings with them, she replied, all her friends thinks the same way.

I have also had these discussions with South Africans, and I sited many examples, of where things are blamed on other migrant Africans in South Africa, especially Nigerians. There have been stories about how Nigerians are picked on in South Africa, by Immigration, Police Officers and other South Africans, but again I was told that this was not true.

The recent brutal violence and thuggery, against Nigerians and other black African immigrants in South Africa, has proved this point beyond doubt and has left over 50 people dead and over 40,000 people displaced.

The intensively of the South African Government and police against the injured and displaced is incomprehensible to the rest of the world.

Violence, thuggery, Anger and hatred against immigrants in South Africa has not just appeared over night, it has been present in South Africa since the end of apartheid, and it only now because of the enormous impact and amount of brutal violence and thuggery, that whole world is beginning to realize this xenophobic behavior, and the international news media is finally broadcasting the injustice that has been taking place in South Africa for many years. This thuggery and xenophobia against other black Africans, is perpetrated by a minority of South Africans that are very vocal, violent and blood thirsty.

It is a tragedy that it is only because so many people have been killed, brutalized and displaced that now this xenophobic behaviour by some South Africans towards, Nigerians, Somalia’s and other Africans is even being shown on the South African news. This problem has been in existence for years, but it is the insensitivity of the South African Authorities that is beyond wickedness, in their mind this black Africans that have been killed and maimed are not worth the time of the day, or important enough to be saved.

Some South Africans only hate their fellow black Africans because they have been conditioned to think that way, that people of European origin are superior to them, and this is why their hatred is always centered on other black Africans.

What is unbelievable and unforgivable is, some South Africans, have this xenophobic attitude only towards other Black Africans, and they make no apologies for it. They forget that even their current president, Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, was living in Nigeria, Botswana, Swaziland and Lusaka, Zambia during the apartheid, Thabo Mbeki’s government was slow in reacting to this problem and this is very sad. Many of South Africa’s leaders, and successful Business men and women sort sanctuary in other African countries, without the help of fellow Africans, South Africa Today would still be in the dark days of apartheid.

Xenophobia is a disease against humanity, Everyone will be a foreigner at some point in there life, if you have ever been on holiday, or hoped to traveled to any country, outside your own country, you have been or will be a foreigner. Most South Africans have been a foreigner at some point in their life and I didn’t see anybody brutalizing or maiming them, outside South Africa.

In my Conclusion, Some South Africans are people without Memories and this is a disease.