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Africa's shame comes home to roost with South Africa’s attack on immigrants

NAIROBI: A man watches as his shop is burnt down by a mob that claims he does not belong; a woman looks for a safe haven for her and her child, her life threatened for being married to who the society considers the wrong person, at the wrong time; friends turn against friends, labelling each other foreigners, outsiders, immigrants.

How did we get here? We carry the brunt of disenfranchisement, old wounds, new wounds, recurrent violence, institutionalised crimes.

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