I love this move from Kenya but it does have real risk, and I’d hate to see another South Africa scenario, xenophobia wise
I love this move from Kenya but it does have real risk, and I’d hate to see another South Africa scenario, xenophobia wise
For the uniformed, South Africa has a growing nativist political vigilante movement which violently targets foreign people and businesses called Operation Dudula [1] (Zulu for "push out/forcefully expel"). They attribute South Africa's social and economic problems to other migrant Africans, rather than the mismanagement and corruption of the ANC.
It will be an easy task for said leaders/citizens to put blame on migrants for the movements. South Africa has been mentioned, but a lot of people in Ghana’s opinion on recent tourism friendly attitudes range from dislike to blaming it on inflation/devaluation there.
Immigration is always an easy scapegoat, it’s almost cheating.