Imperial Violence Against Black African Family: The (South) African Experience - Afrophobia/ Xenophobia?

Abstract

This seminar will dissect the rationale behind the ceaseless attack/s on the Black African community in Africa especially in South Africa and recently Nigeria. The Afrocentric perspective will be utilised in trying to understand this situation that tends to engulf the Black African populace specifically in the so called ‘postcolonial/ postapartheid/ democratic era that is perceived as a liberated state to some. Nonetheless, the structural violence will be revisited as a social machinery for subjugation and domination that breeds imperial violence as a strategy for prohibiting Black African people’s self-reliance and reaching their full potential. Furthermore, this seminar will also look at issues such as lack of respect amongst Black African community, opportunism, ignorance or imposed self-hatred of self-identity, Stockholm syndrome and patterns of coloniality. It will conclude by suggesting some possibilities that can be explored to curb this imperial violence that keeps on revealing its notorious colonial tendencies among the Black African population in general.