In March, not far from her neighborhood, a roving mob beat up a number of African students in multiple attacks. Some of the violence was captured on a widely circulated video of Indian men storming into a local shopping mall, kicking and punching a black man, and thrashing him with metal trashcans and stools. The severely injured victim, a young Nigerian, survived, but Okoyeegbe and many other Africans in the area feared enough for their safety to remain indoors for several days, in some cases weeks.

The past few years have seen several clashes between the locals and an expatriate African population of about 40,000 by some estimates, many of them students. In 2013, a minister in the state government of Goa was criticized for referring to Nigerians as a “cancer.” The following year, a mob assaulted a group of young men from Gabon and Burkina Faso in New Delhi — an attack posted on YouTube. In January 2016, Indians and Africans alike were appalled again when a Tanzanian student was pulled out of a car, beaten, and partially stripped in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. She was allegedly targeted by an irate mob after an intoxicated Sudanese student ran his car over a couple, killing the woman and injuring the man. The Tanzanian student didn’t even know the Sudanese driver. She and her friends had only driven through the accident site and inquired about the earlier incident. The police confirmed that she was presumed to have been involved with the crime, simply because she was African.

The 25-year-old Nigerian student came to India from the state of Ebonyi in 2013. Since arriving, he has been mocked, stared at, and called racial slurs like kalu, a Hindi word that translates to “blacky,” and habshi, a derogatory term for people of African origin, which has its roots in Arabic.

He has run through eight houses in the last four years. “I pay my bills and rent on time. I keep my house clean.” When he asked the owner of an apartment why he suddenly had to vacate, Alagba says the landlord told him that “tenants complained that their culture forbade them from living with blacks.”

“Landlords have always overcharged them. What is new, and especially disturbing, is, first, the level of police harassment, of which there is anecdotal evidence, on the pretext of combating drug peddling and prostitution and, second, the increasing tendency for some Indians to resort to violence.”

Today, Okoyeegbe regrets her journey eastward. “My dream was to study medicine. In Africa, India is known for medicine,” she says. “Many Africans travel abroad for medical treatment. I thought, ‘Why not go to India, get the knowledge and a correlation with Indian doctors so that Nigerians don’t have to travel to get basic health care?’”

Now, the only thing keeping her in Greater Noida is her coursework, which she is on schedule to complete by next year, and her tenure abroad is tinged with bitterness. “I can never let anyone I love take a flight to India and live here,” she laments. “I wouldn’t even advise my enemy to live here.”

Cousin9999:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/24/the-harsh-reality-of-being-african-in-india-race-violence-college-students/
Stop posting trash you this frustrated person

Cousin9999:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/24/the-harsh-reality-of-being-african-in-india-race-violence-college-students/

Udapod:
Do u have a better option?

Udapod:
Guys i'm tired of this country. I want to study abroad. I am going for degree in mbbs. I was thinking of india. Pls recommend a country where i can study mbbs with at max 1million per year. Any country that teaches it in english is what i want. Help a brother.

ednut1:
you can always study in Nigeria. And relocate to uk as a doctor later

dasparrow:


India is a terribly racist place. Why do you want to go there? Why do some of you keep seeking to go to racially hostile countries? Dem swear for una? You think racism is a joke? By the time those indians beat you up, break your head or even worse kill you, you will know what's up.

And rather than go for a degree, learn a technical skill instead. So many Africans have degrees yet they can't find employment. . Yet, you will rather waste your life in some racist, xenophobic, overcrowded

Learn a skill like floor and wall tiling, P.O.P, building construction, computer technology, etc and you will make money right here in Africa

cow-worshipping shithole like india. So unfortunate!

Gerrard59:
OP,

You are better off studying medicine in Nigeria - way cheaper - as you are a citizen. Medicine is very expensive to study elsewhere even for citizens let alone non-citizens. No reputable country whose language of pedagogy is in English will accept less than less than $3,000 as fees for medicine from a non-citizen.

Udapod:
Thats about 1.2m. The last time i checked i can afford that plus i can also get a schorlaship

Gerrard59:


In which country and which university?

P.S. What are your secondary school grades that make you believe you can get a scholarship to study medicine as a foreign citizen?

tensazangetsu20:
Op it's not easy getting admission into a recognised Indian institution for medicine. Except you want to go a to quack school. The exams for AIIMS are extremely competitive and very difficult for Indians. Only the best get in.

Gerrard59:


He's going for a medical degree not just any pure water degree. Ab initio, medicine has always been revelant in any society, so the aspect of being unemployed doesn't hold water especially in a pandemic-ed world.



Bloody effing liar and barefaced hypocrite! Which "...right here in Africa"? The Africa you fled to a no-name country in Central America? After fleeing Europe to Abuja, you fled to bloody Central America YET you want someone to learn tiling and building construction to eke a living in Nigeria so as to make big big money. Why didn't you do same? I'm surprised you didn't mention your imaginary Lebanese/Indian/Chinese billionaires who generate BILLIONS in Nigeria.



You're a black woman and have no right to call one of world's biggest economy a shithole when the vast vast majority of black dominated countries are notorious shitholes and terribly poor. How many Indians do you have studying in black dominated countries compared to blacks studying in India?

Udapod:
Exams don't scare me.

dasparrow:


India is a terribly racist place. Why do you want to go there? Why do some of you keep seeking to go to racially hostile countries? Dem swear for una? You think racism is a joke? By the time those indians beat you up, break your head or even worse kill you, you will know what's up.

And rather than go for a degree, learn a technical skill instead. So many Africans have degrees yet they can't find employment. Learn a skill like floor and wall tiling, P.O.P, building construction, computer technology, etc and you will make money right here in Africa. Yet, you will rather waste your life in some racist, xenophobic, overcrowded, cow-worshipping shithole like india. So unfortunate!

Cleanworld:


He won't understand your wisdom here not until he step is foot in overseas thyen he will have a story to share either good or bad. just pray he relocate soonest

tensazangetsu20:

The person you are quoting came back to Nigeria and immediately fled to Latin America check her past posts. If she came back to Nigeria and stayed everyone will take her seriously. She's also fond of calling all black men rapists and animals.

dasparrow:
India is a terribly racist place. Why do you want to go there? Why do some of you keep seeking to go to racially hostile countries? Dem swear for una? You think racism is a joke? By the time those indians beat you up, break your head or even worse kill you, you will know what's up.

dasparrow:
And rather than go for a degree, learn a technical skill instead. So many Africans have degrees yet they can't find employment. Learn a skill like floor and wall tiling, P.O.P, building construction, computer technology, etc and you will make money right here in Africa.

dasparrow:
Yet, you will rather waste your life in some racist, xenophobic, overcrowded, cow-worshipping shithole like india. So unfortunate!

Udapod:
I had 4As the rest were Bs except english that i had c4.