Africa – The Big Picture -By Anase Momoh

Relatively amazing seeing how Africa has become a major ‘concern’ for the entire world both positively and the other way round. Since the whole global crises started, Africa has not only generated a lot of attention as to her survival through this pandemic, but America’s President Trump’s collective desire alone to send to Nigeria enough ventilators is enough to regard Africa as the ‘centre of attraction’ at the moment; plus Bill Gates’ theory of the ‘Almighty Oxford Vaccine’ that has generated a lot- a whole lot of controversy.

Flipping through an update on CNN this morning sent shivers all over my system as to the inhumane treatment Africans are given currently in China. I can’t imagine that xenophobic attacks on Africans residing in China- Guangdong is on the rise.

Whipping up Africa’s national pride had for a very long time been an emblem for a lot of countries, who see Africa as a mere crackdown that can be smeared, ridiculed and at the same time regarded as an object of scorn. I’m an African, and such detrimental and nasty assertion must be revoked.

For Africa’s sake I will not keep silence. This is appalling and it’s a pity that the hurting chorus of racism had taken over since the pandemic happened, and African’s are regarded as ‘ungrateful’ and ‘carriers of diseases’. Such pathetic and unwholesome comments has dampened the morale of lot of vulnerable and harmless Civilians. Taken together these wide frame of disastrous events have rendered a lot of Africans in China homeless, jobless and being cheated. How do you imagine being relegated at your workplace and or being paid less compared to your white colleague who works in the same studio with you. This is the height of it, and honestly something needs to be done urgently to putba stop to these before it escalates to a huge catastrophe that can’t be curtailed like South Africa’s recent occurence.

These published stigmatization and high-class discrimination is absolutely not necessary and in fact has proved to Black in diaspora that China has no good intention for her from the scratch, except been a major trade ally; that’s all. If there existed any other advantage, the recent attacks rendered it null and void- no reference point.

I do hope China’s statement that the issue will be properly handled with the joint efforts of the two sides is achieved- I really do hope.