the topic will offer more questions that answers...

more than a million Ghanaians were working (il) legally in Nigeria as the country had enjoyed oil boom. However there were complaints that the Ghanaians had taken over the labour work force in the country and Nigerians were forced to compete with them in the labour market. The collapse of the oil boom forced the country into economic hardship. Someone had to be blamed and the foreigners were the scapegoat.

https://www.naij.com/873697-retro-series-see-happened-nigeria-deported-1-million-ghanaians-photosvideo.html

A more modern rendition is at play in America with President Trump's proposal to legislate series of unprecedented symbols of xenophobia by attempting to ban all Muslims, erecting a wall only on its southern border with Mexico, and cracking down on immigrants who've potentially overstayed their H1-Bs. Should we forget xenophobic and potentially racist undertones which may have been the deciding factor for Brexit's closely contested secession from the EU and the surge of anti-immigrant supporters and their political leaders in the West?

I also hear it all the time from fellow African Americans ,"do you really want Africans coming here [to America] stealing your opportunities?", to Africans'/Carribeaners, "you're jealous that we're stealing your jobs". I really have the utmost pity for all sides of this conversation bcuz here lies a bigger issue we love ignoring: we've accepted defeat, now fighting each other for crumbs.

To South Africans, with their latest string of xenophobic attacks, and African Americans, I ask "is an economic world you didn't create really worth fighting for?" and to other Africans who, with no shame, run abroad, "is it really worth running to, in many cases risking death or using deceit to make the journey"?

The struggle is indeed real for all inferior fvcks willing to play along while beating their chests as some earner, ya know, a big fish in a small pond, modern slaves willing to kill themselves to earn their place on a porch, or as Shymexx once brilliantly stated, "love being a spoke on someone else's wheel".

History would suggest that you all would behave in a similar manner as xenophobic SAs. Another moment in modern history where I both cry and laugh.