Beyond borders: Afrophobia and Africa’s unfulfilled promise

Passengers wait to be checked in as Ghana repatriates hundreds of its citizens from South Africa at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park, South Africa, May 27, 2026.

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I still remember the silence.

It was in the midst of the xenophobic attacks on fellow Africans, which started on April 11, 2015, and were flooding global screens.