“You're standing at a zoo, and looking at a caged animal, admiring it, scrutinizing every aspect of it, observing its walk, its skin. Now imagine you're that caged animal and people are gawking at you like you're an alien, like you don't belong. That is how black citizens of African nations say they feel in India, they aren't caged but they might as well be.” - Sarakshi Rai.
A few days ago in Greater Noida, some Hausa boys were allegedly beaten up by an Indian mob, while the reverse was published in the media (that Indians were beaten up by the Hausa boys). Whereas, the reality was that an Indian boy, with rich but uneducated father, snapped pictures of a Hausa boy and was asked to delete same but would not budge. He called his father and that led to the Hausa boys being attacked. This event led to sabotage on public facilities that fed the Africans (including but not limited to the disruption of power supply); this, ultimately leading to the ejection of Africans, who had to resort to emergent searching for new shelter, with its attendant challenges.
Sometimes, it is a wonder what globalization, in the sense of globetrotting (let’s content ourselves with singly traveling from one’s own country to another’s), may do to one, one’s family and one’s internal peace, when confronted by the dastardly racism that some countries (or some of their citizens) are associated with.
According to The Times of India on July 4, 2014, she received “a cryptic one-line email from Yannick's father, Nestor Ntibateganya,” from Burundi which “should be enough to shake Punjab's conscience, "Yannick passed away in the night of 1st July 2014."
Yannick Nihangaza was a student of Computer Engineering at Lovely Professional (continue reading on my blog)