Africa Has a Race & Anti-Blackness Problem From North to Sub-Saharan to the Southern Coast

Friday, 28 April 2022

By: TB Obwoge

It's time to stop lying on the fact that Africa welcomes everyone. Blacks from all over the world aren't welcomed in many countries that claim to be the most welcoming.

There is Anti-Blackness towards people who are darker in skin tone in many countries. Sub-Sahran African countries too practice this same hatred for their own darker skinned citizens.

Ghana is a perfect example, where people use 'Blackie and Darkie' as names to call others. Proclaiming it's all done in a friendly manner, this is the typical reply. Now 'typical' is becoming the term as social media platforms like Facebook will ban the use of 'darkie and blackie', which is welcomed.

Writing about the 'Racism in Africa' as a Black person who has light skin whom is considered white, addressed as white and told to leave their country.

I've gained hatred, threats and insults. Someone went as far as locating my actual Facebook page to send me a threat from a fake account. When I tried to do something about it the account which was just created to message me was gone. I decided against walking through the steps to locate the person behind the account.

From some Africans in Ghana proclaiming you're not Black unless you were born in Africa and speak a Ghanian language. That was very odd, she went onto say even if you learn a Ghanian language that doesn't count. She said we know light skin people are Black when they speak like us.

According to her then the Lebanese and Chinese in Ghana who have learned a Ghanian language are Black but not the descendants of Africans from Africa. Below is a YouTube video of her trying to explain this nonsense, which I still don't understand.

She was joined by another man on another day that ranted about "Blacks in Black American are not Black because they never suffered like the African." He didn't think that being enslaved was suffering, or the years of being beaten for being Black in the era of 'Jim Crow Laws'

Africans believe that all people are wealthy, rich beyond means that live outside of Africa. Many are raised thinking this, so they don't understand the suffering, the same way millions don't understand their suffering.

Now With Netflix Issue With Colorism in Egypt People Will Again Ignore Racism in Africa Because of the Constant Anti-Blackness in the Northern Area of Africa

Egyptians are not British, they never were but the above comment gives license to citizens in other African countries to ignore their racism against white people, Black Americans, Chinese, Arabs and so forth.

One African man said Blacks can't be racists, this was in an article of a Lebanese man in Ghana talking about how hard it was having his lighter skin color.

There is also Morocco, where one footballer made a speech after a win in the FIFA tournament, saying this win was for the Arab and Muslim world but hadn't included Africa.

Once again Africans claimed all Moroccans were racists and didn't want to be considered Africans. All this from one man's comments, even if there are darker skinned Moroccans that claim being Black & African in the country.

Speaking on those darker skinned Moroccans, there have been that speak about Anti-Blackness. Discrimination and hatred for them within their own country. This includes countries like Tunisia, where President Kais Saied, blamed the countries issues on Sub-Saharan Africans.

Saied's words led to attacks on darker skinned Africans, unfair evictions, wide-spread protesting. The African Union Issued a statement but did nothing beyond that because racism in ignored in many countries.

There has been continental wide xenophobia against Nigerians that has rarely been addressed. Especially by the Nigerian government. Ghana is a country which practices discrimination against Nigerians as well.

Ghana's Hatred For Nigerians

There was even a Ghanian claiming that in his area of Ghana they burn Nigerians alive. South Africans who've also been xenophobic to Nigerians oddly have reported to me they find it hard living in Ghana with discrimination.

This Ghanian woman went on the attack after someone posted several examples of xenophobia is Ghana. The President John Mahama addressed the xenophobia that she is claiming never existed. This isn't a race issue but it is an example of hatred left unchecked in Africa.

In a Tweet a man is asking a government account of South Africa, if Black people can be racists. The account didn't reply but others did to insult him, they used Apartheid as the example.

However most African countries are lead by Black people, like Ghana and Nigeria. They have Black police officers, Black immigration officer and soldier that are Black. I've yet to see some of the large populations of people allowed in their military, like Lebanese born Ghanians or Asians.

The systems in these Sub-Saharan countries are led by Black mostly men, there is rampant racism in these countries for non-Black or non-darker skinned people that are not considered Black. Where are any laws created to protect these people, in countries begging for investors like Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania?

Are people to invest and not allowed to live in the country peacefully, just send their money?

This man claim is that since no Black run country has never had a case filed against them, therefore there isn't a racist Black country?

Black people never had a racist system that was classified as a crime against humanity by human rights organizations. I can see you are apply Goebbels’ tactics of: “Accuse your victims of what you are guilty of.”

Ghana's harassment of people they think are 'White' by police, immigration that's not racism? I have been stopped several times, even had a Ghanian pay police that forced him to give money because of my skin color. Since Ghana gets away with this it's not racism?

Ghana, Nigerian Cameroon, all places where people have had to pay money due to corruption and their skin color.

According to Joseph Mokobake, it's ok to practice racism because white people who started and practiced this to perfection so far.

With his logic than North Africans aren't racists against Blacks they're not capable because white people started it and practiced this to perfection so far. Not Black Africans. Nope but Rwanda arressted 3 Black women for being racists towards white foreigners in the country.

His words again;

Joseph Mokobake

@Jozee25 Everyone is capable of this, but it’s white People who started and practiced this to perfection so far.

Sound very familiar here, the same words were uttered by Ghanians making racists posts about Koreans. This was after they beat South Korea in the FIFA 2022 games.

Ghana won, then they decided to insult the Koreans, wait though, hmmmm intereringly enough Ghanians started before the match. The game was being announced, a match between South Korea was being played. The announcer says their Korean names Kim, Kim, Kim, Kim, Wong were the names of more than one player.

This was when my TL saw Ghanians start their memes, insults and name calling. Why though? Did South Korea insult Ghanians or any Africans names? To answer you No, they didn't.

After the win several Ghanians blew up my social media accounts, I posted congratulations to the team but said the fans could've let out the racist memes. My life was threatened but Ghanians biggest responce was 'They started it first!"

This is always going to be the reply to racism in Africa.

HURIWA raises the alarm over xenophobic attack on Nigerians in Ghana

Urges Buhari, ECOWAS to intervene

A PRO-DEMOCRACY and non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), has raised the alarm over possible xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in Ghana.

The rights group, however, urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to intervene so as to forestall possible xenophobic violence targeting Nigerians in Ghana following a string of cases of kidnapping and organised crimes in which some Nigerians were implicated.

HURIWA said her attention was called to the development in Ghana by some good spirited Nigerians and Ghanaians from Ghana who expressed worry that there could be imminent xenophobic attacks against Nigerians going by the extent of one-sided stereotyping by the media and top level political office holders in Ghana which graphically depict Nigerians as criminals and kidnappers.

Source: The Guardian

Thank you for reading 🙏🏽 Please consider buying a coffee for Lacey's House efforts in Gender Equality & Children's Rights.

©️TB Obwoge 2023 All Rights Reserved