Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
Racism & xenophobia
RSS Feedfracas on SAA flight
2002-04-18
TV star David Vlok was involved in an altercation with a first-class passenger on a South African Airways flight to London after the man delayed its departure from Johannesburg International Airport on Thursday night by demanding that two Muslim pass...
Global: Nigerians in the UK urge boycott of British Airways
2008-05-08
British Airways has been criticised over its handling of a forced deportation and its treatment of Nigerian passengers on a flight from Heathrow airport. Passengers on board the 27 March BA flight to Lagos began to protest about the manhandling of Au...
Nigeria: Senate warns citizens against trips to South Africa
2008-04-24
The Nigerian senate has warned Nigerians travelling to and living in South Africa to be wary of incessant attacks, even as it called on the Federal Government to issue a travel advice to all Nigerians travelling to the country. The lawmakers said the...
South Africa: Xenophobic attacks drive hundreds from homes in suburb
2008-04-04
After months of sporadic xenophobic attacks elsewhere in South Africa, a series of brutal assaults on foreigners in makeshift settlements on the outskirts of the capital has galvanized government and private organizations into action. The mob attacks...
South Africa: Outcry over 'racist' video
2008-02-29
Several white students in South Africa face criminal charges after allegedly forcing black campus employees to eat food that had been urinated on. A video has surfaced which appears to show the students instructing five elderly workers to drink beer ...
Kenya: Elders want US apology over Obama photo
2008-02-29
Kenyan elders demanded an apology from Washington on Thursday ahead of a planned protest over a controversial photo of U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama in traditional Somali dress. The picture, which appeared on a U.S. Web site, showed the Demo...
Global: Civil society to prepare for the Durban Review Conference
2008-02-22
FORUM-ASIA and International Movement Against All Forms of Racial Discrimination (IMADR) will organise the 1st Regional Workshop on the Durban Review Conference (DRC) 2009. About 30 representatives of civil society organisations are expected to atten...
South Africa: Makwerekwere, Black South Africa's Instant-Mix Kaffirs
Pius Adesanmi (2008-02-01)
The letters came within two days of each other. The first was an invitation from Professor Georges Hérault, Director of the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS). Three years after my last visit to South Africa to assess the perception of Francopho...
Africa: Egypt accuses Europe of discrimination, xenophobia
2008-01-18
Angry about a European Parliament resolution on human rights in Egypt, the Egyptian government countered with an accusation that religious and ethnic minorities face increasing discrimination in Europe. "Egypt is deeply concerned at the deteriorating...
Africa: SA scholar 'barred because of his views'
2007-11-30
A South African scholar was barred from the United States because of his criticism of US policy in Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay prisoner camp, a civil rights group said in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. Accusing the Bush administration of stifling academ...
Africa: Nicolas Sarkozy's Africa
2007-10-26
What credibility can we afford such gloomy words that portray Africans as fundamentally traumatized beings incapable of acting on their own behalf and in their own recognized interests, asks Achille Mbembe. What is this so-called historicity of the c...
Sierra Leone: Youths loot Lebanese stores over rape
2007-10-26
Youths went on the rampage in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Thursday, attacking and looting Lebanese-owned shops after reports a Lebanese man had raped and killed a local woman. Police fired tear gas to disperse crowds of young men who broke int...
Global: Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims
2007-10-18
One of the world’s most respected scientists is embroiled in an extraordinary row after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people. James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, has provok...
Global: Nobel laureate slammed for racist spewings
2007-10-18
A Nobel prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence is no longer welcome to deliver a lecture at London's Science Museum, the museum said. James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-dis...
South Africa: Government takes practical steps to combat xenophobia
2007-08-03
Muslah Ahmed, a Somali asylum seeker, had been in South Africa's KwaNobuhle Township barely a week when he became the victim of an attack that left him burnt, disfigured and severely traumatized. On 1 July 2007, he and three of his countrymen were se...
Uganda: Forest protest sparks racial violence
2007-04-13
Uganda's capital, Kampala, erupted into racial violence this week, with three people killed during a protest against government plans to allow Ugandan-Asian industrialists to grow sugar cane on protected forest land. In scenes described as reminiscen...
Global: Rising racial discrimination undermines development goals, UN warns
2007-03-22
Although the world has made significant strides in the battle against racial discrimination in recent decades, recent reports point to “a disturbing rise” in incidents of a practice that constitutes a formidable obstacle to national development, Unit...
Global: Migrants facing race hate in UK
2007-03-16
A family of seven Somali migrants who moved into a new house in North London five years ago has barely gone 48 hours without suffering some sort of racial abuse....
South Africa: Somalis are 'easy prey'
2007-03-08
On February 12, a young South African man was accidentally shot outside the Bafana Bafana spaza shop in Motherwell township in Port Elizabeth’s Nelson Mandela Municipality. Police claim he was shot by Somali shopkeeper Hassan Alow. Alow said thieves ...
South Africa: Fallen Anti-Apartheid Icon Leaves Behind Inequality
2007-02-08
Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Adelaide Tambo's struggle for equality in South Africa has paid off in areas of political participation, but the economy still remains in the hands of the country's white minority, say researchers and campaigners....
Botswana: Bushmen return home despite police presence
2007-01-24
A group of forty Bushmen have managed to return to their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve this weekend, despite a heavy police presence and attempts to persuade them to stay in the relocation camps. All the Bushmen in the convoy were allowe...
South Afria: Skilled foreigners tied up in red tape
2006-11-15
Businesses which need foreign language-speakers for call centres are reluctant to employ foreigners because of the work permit process. A number of South African firms refuse to employ skilled foreigners because of nightmarish immigration bureaucracy...
East Africa: Xenophobia and the EA federation
2006-11-01
There is a new wave of xenophobia that is slowly creeping into the East African region that if not nipped in the bud, could undermine the ongoing efforts at political federation, the much cherished goal of our region. The timing of this xenophobia is...
South Africa: HSRC's Habib Denied U.S. Entry
2006-10-25
Prominent academic Prof Adam Habib was last week denied entry into the US at New York's John F Kennedy airport. He told Business Day yesterday (24 October 2006) that he was still mystified as to why he had been refused entry into the US last Friday. ...
Spain: Groundbreaking lawsuit challenges racial profiling by police
2006-09-26
In the first-ever legal challenge to racial profiling filed with an international human rights tribunal, a coalition of advocacy groups have submitted an application to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, seeking to halt racial profiling by po...
South Africa: How obsession with race stops SA from meeting its challenges
2006-09-20
Race remains our national obsession — even when we talk of it in code. And so issues which clearly reflect our racial divides are more likely to be seen by all of us, and to command our attention: witness last week’s dispute about company employment ...
South Africa: Some of the reasons why Xenophobia persist
2006-09-14
Dear Madam, Open Letter to the Minister of Justice on xenophobic attacks against Somali and other Refugees Dear Minister, We are making this an open letter not to insult your powerful and respectable office; we are making it an open letter because we...
Global: Rationalising The Irrational, Racism and The Fallacy of Personal Experience
2006-09-11
Yet, as it turns out, to generalize about entire groups of people based upon one's personal (and by definition limited) experiences with persons from those groups, is illegitimate on several levels....
Global: How beautiful was my colony
2006-09-11
A meaning of colonialism offered in the new edition of a French dictionary has stirred another debate on how France views its past. In its edition that appeared this month, the widely consulted French dictionary Le Petit Robert defines colonialism as...
Saudi Arabia: Saudi-Born Chadians Face Increasing Discrimination Under New Policies
2006-09-11
Saudi Arabia should immediately end its discrimination against its 100,000 Chadian residents, most of whom were born in the kingdom but are increasingly denied the rights to basic education and emergency healthcare, Human Rights Watch has said. Saudi...
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