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Saying this shows you aren’t following any type of news in Africa at all. Living ranges from decent, bad, worse, to all levels of terrible. Kenya is a place wit

Saying this shows you aren’t following any type of news in Africa at all. Living ranges from decent, bad, worse, to all levels of terrible. Kenya is a place with a lot of decent and bad, surrounded by countries with decent and bad as well, alongside various levels of terrible. I love this move from Kenya but it does have real risk, and I’d hate to see another South Africa scenario, xenophobia wise

O_nlogn 3y ago
> I’d hate to see another South Africa scenario, xenophobia wise For the uniformed, South Africa has a growing nativist political vigilante movement which violently targets foreign people and businesses called Operation Dudula [1] (Zulu for "push out/forcefully expel"). They attribute South Africa's social and economic problems to other migrant Africans, rather than the mismanagement and corruption of the ANC. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66808346 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66808346
- preciousoo 3y ago
  The problem is that there aren’t any real leaders that are loved in their country. Ironically, the closest to be liked (atleast externally among Africans) are the Rwandan and Ghanaian presidents. But the citizens living in said countries have varying levels of dislike for said leaders. It will be an easy task for said leaders/citizens to put blame on migrants for the movements. South Africa has been mentioned, but a lot of people in Ghana’s opinion on recent tourism friendly attitudes range from dislike to blaming it on inflation/devaluation there. Immigration is always an easy scapegoat, it’s almost cheating.
- salamanderss 3y ago
  Worked great for Zimbabwe!
abenga 3y ago
We have had visa free travel within East Africa for a long while now, and nothing massively horrible has happened, despite the other countries in East Africa having it, to various degrees, worse compared to Kenya. Plus Kenya already spent decades hosting millions of refugees fleeing wars from South Sudan and Somalia, again to no massively horrible effect.

O_nlogn 3y ago

> I’d hate to see another South Africa scenario, xenophobia wise For the uniformed, South Africa has a growing nativist political vigilante movement which violently targets foreign people and businesses called Operation Dudula [1] (Zulu for "push out/forcefully expel"). They attribute South Africa's social and economic problems to other migrant Africans, rather than the mismanagement and corruption of the ANC. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66808346 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66808346

preciousoo 3y ago
The problem is that there aren’t any real leaders that are loved in their country. Ironically, the closest to be liked (atleast externally among Africans) are the Rwandan and Ghanaian presidents. But the citizens living in said countries have varying levels of dislike for said leaders. It will be an easy task for said leaders/citizens to put blame on migrants for the movements. South Africa has been mentioned, but a lot of people in Ghana’s opinion on recent tourism friendly attitudes range from dislike to blaming it on inflation/devaluation there. Immigration is always an easy scapegoat, it’s almost cheating.
salamanderss 3y ago
Worked great for Zimbabwe!

abenga 3y ago

We have had visa free travel within East Africa for a long while now, and nothing massively horrible has happened, despite the other countries in East Africa having it, to various degrees, worse compared to Kenya. Plus Kenya already spent decades hosting millions of refugees fleeing wars from South Sudan and Somalia, again to no massively horrible effect.