Ubuntu, Afrophobia and Africa’s unfinished struggle for unity

This month, the news about Africa continues to centre around the disturbing images from South Africa circulating worldwide on social media. Not even the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi could shift that. African migrants were attacked, their shops looted, people chased, assaulted and blamed simply for being from another African country and seeking to make a living in South Africa. Incidentally, many of the people victimised claimed to have the right of residence in the country.

By Caleb Ahinakwah