Xenophobia or Afrophobia?: Anti-African Hostility from Johannesburg to the Global North

Xenophobia or Afrophobia? Anti-African Hostility from Johannesburg to the Global North

Recent anti-migrant demonstrations in South Africa have reignited debate over whether such hostility is best understood as xenophobia or as Afrophobia, a hostility aimed specifically at Black Africans. This panel uses the South African case to explore how economic precarity, contested citizenship, and the legacies of colonial borders produce exclusion within Africa, and has also traveled to Diasporas in the Global North.

Dr. Krista Johnson is Professor of African Studies at Howard University and Director of the Center for African Studies. She has lived in and researched and published on South Africa throughout her academic career. Her new research project focuses on political polarization, white grievance and the claimed Afrikaner genocide.

Dr. Sipho Sithole is a South African and teaches Zulu Language & Culture in the Department of World Languages & Cultures at Howard University.  He is a published author and regularly comments…