Are Black people not capable of crafting their own xenophobic, parochial, and exclusivist narratives and acting upon these narratives outside of White domination and divide and rule?
When Ghana and Nigeria expelled citizens of the other country in multiple waves, was that also a product of White divide and rule or expedient, cynical, populist politics of scapegoating, which is a universal political phenomenon? One of those expulsions even occurred under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, the proponent of African and pan-African unity and solidarity.
My point is that we should accord Africans/Blacks the full range of their agency, which encompasses the rationality to craft and implement positive, inclusive projects of solidarity as well as negative, exclusionary, and insular ones. There is in each case a rationality and strategy to it, not simply a robotic, reflexive reactionary response to White divide and rule.
Not everything is being instigated by the white man. Some things have their own internal dynamics and logics that we should, analyze, condemn, and criticize as we deem fit on their own terms even if colonial and racist aftershocks are discernible in the society in question.
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Model X: The White South African discriminatordivide and rule model that instigated virulentxenophobic riots
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