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April 2nd, 2017 – Afrophobia In India: Nigerians Stoned By Angry Indians Attacking Africans Across New Delhi Recount Ordeal

Two brothers, Precious and Endurance Amalawa were wandering through a mall in a New Delhi suburb when the phone rang with warnings from a friend: Hurry home, mobs of Indians are attacking Africans across the area.

The Nigerians who came to India to seek better education and work opportunities, rushed out and tried to hail an autorickshaw, just as a mob of Indian men saw them and ran toward them.

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The Amalawas ran back inside the mall but dozens of screaming men followed them. Precious Amalawa hid inside a changing room but Endurance got dragged out.

“They attacked him with bricks, sticks, belts,” 23-year-old Precious said Friday as he sat, still stiff with shock and fear, in their apartment. Endurance’s body was dotted with medical staples – on his temple, his cheek and both arms. Precious’ arms were covered in cuts and bruises from when the mob chased him from his hiding place by shoving sharp objects through the changing room’s thin walls.

The violence started March 24 when a teenage boy disappeared in Greater Noida, outside New Delhi, and angry relatives claimed he had been killed by his Nigerian neighbours. A mob of people began searching the area for Africans, with some accusing kidnappers of eating the boy.

The boy returned home Saturday morning. He died later that day of what police said was a drug overdose.
Five men who had been charged with kidnapping and murder were let go within hours because police could find no evidence.

But rumours about cannibalism swirled and mobs began to attack Africans across the suburb. The last attacks were reported Wednesday. There were reports of mobs pulling Africans out of taxi cabs and autorickshaws and assaulting them.

In shaky cell phone videos of the attack on the Amalawa brothers last Monday afternoon, more than a dozen men can be seen brutally beating Endurance with whatever they could lay their hands on – one man smashed a large metal trash can repeatedly on his torso and head.

Another man used a collapsible metal chair to hit the cowering man as he lay on the ground. The snap of leather belts can be heard. One man even attempts a selfie with the violence in the background.

Endurance, 21, wouldn’t talk about the attack at all as he sat, still tense with fear, in the sparsely furnished apartment.

The African Students’ Association in India asked Africans across the capital to remain alert and especially warned those living in Greater Noida from stepping out at all.

“All African Students Studying in Greater Noida are hereby instructed to stay at home as the situation remains volatile,” the statement said.

The association has been arranging food and water for African students in Greater Noida as most of them hide at home.

Police say they have arrested five men for attacking the brothers and are searching for others. Police patrols in the area have been increased after India’s foreign minister asked that the local government ensure the safety of Greater Noida’s African population.

Tens of thousands of Africans live and study in India, and newly built suburbs like Greater Noida especially draw students because they are home to several sprawling private universities.

But prejudice and racism are near-constants. Skin colour and appearances are used to place people in India’s strict social order, and stereotyping of all African men as drug dealers and women as prostitutes is prevalent. Landlords shun Africans in all but the poorest neighbourhoods and charge them unusually high rent. And gang assaults are not uncommon.

“We face street aggression, abuses. We also face difficulty in getting accommodation, we face difficulty in naturally integrating with the local community,” said Samuel Jack, the president of the African Students’ Association of India.

“I just give you an example. I have Indian friends in my school, I have never visited their house and they have never ever decided to ask me: Where do you live? Can I come and see you?”

The sufferings Africans experience daily go largely unnoticed, and Africans, most of whom are young students, also hesitate to complain and draw attention to themselves.

That changed when a Congolese student was killed in a dispute over hiring an autorickshaw in New Delhi last year. Three men who insisted they had hired the vehicle beat him up and hit him on the head with a rock, killing him, according to police.

The death made the city’s African students, diplomats and business owners’ rally together demanding quick justice. The African Heads of Mission in New Delhi asked the government to address “racism and Afro-phobia” in the country.

Other examples of anti-African prejudice in India have occurred.

For Precious and Endurance Amalawa the memory of their suffering will be impossible to forget. Their fear is palpable even inside their home.

[National Mirror]

17 Comments

17 Comments

  1. mulikat

    April 2, 2017 at 7:27 AM

    what are they doing in that dirty India, cos any place u see dirty no clean road, the clean place u see in Indian is in their film.go back to your country or go to another peaceful African country,but dont go to S.A.they have wicked mind like india.

    • Chioma

      April 3, 2017 at 2:18 PM

      Nawa oooo? Abi indians are racists

  2. Ahmed Mohammed

    April 2, 2017 at 9:00 AM

    We’ll,we should appreciate our country because there is no place like home if not who are Indians to be intimidating our people. Please Federal government should do something immediately.

  3. charles ikejiobi

    April 2, 2017 at 12:29 PM

    the should leave india and go to a better place for the seek of there lives

  4. OPINION

    April 2, 2017 at 12:32 PM

    AFRICANS SHOULD GO BACK TO THEIR COUNTRIES. WELL IT IS THE FAULT OF OUR STUPID LEADERS. HAD IT BEEN THEY HAVE PUT THINGS IN PLACE, PEOPLE WILL NOT HAVE THE CAUSE TO LOOK FOR GREENER PASTURE OUTSIDE THEIR COUNTRY.

  5. Bok

    April 2, 2017 at 3:39 PM

    ordinary Indians,nawa oooo

  6. Grace

    April 2, 2017 at 5:42 PM

    Tens of thousands of Africans study and live in Indian. And the Indians behaved to them in this way. Africans in India please better leave that nation. How can they beat someone like this. Our African govt please do something to safe guard our good citizens from well behaved home who has gone there to study. I suspect the only reasons for this to happened is due to cult and all other atrocities in our home.

    May this young boy get healed soon in Jesus name. I pray and hope his brain will be OK as soon as he recovers. Nigeria is not safe that is why our people run out of Nigeria. Govt please change Nigeria for better.

  7. Grace

    April 2, 2017 at 5:47 PM

    Indians south Africans reading this message tell your govt to tell the citizens to change from their wicked ways. Africans are humans not animals. In Nigeria and other African country we treat you Indians like queens and kings why treat us black bodies Africans ion that horrible ways. please change your citizens views about us.

  8. Big Aunty Koks

    April 2, 2017 at 8:58 PM

    Are the Indian people not black people? Why are they exhibiting this wickedness towards Africans ? I learn the place is more over populated than Africa so it could be fear that the few Africans joining them there will cause food crisis. Yes , @Grace I agree that our countries should be made conducive to dwell in safety so our people do not get treated as felons by criminals of other Nations.

    • iron bar

      April 2, 2017 at 9:26 PM

      indians are not black people and have nothing in common with them.over 1 billion in population.tough place to survive and well known for xenophobic attacks..people should boycott that country

  9. Mabel Makinde

    April 2, 2017 at 10:10 PM

    Why will a normal person send his children to India to study? Their parents better recall them home to private university. India has nothing to offer. Wicked even to their own….mshewwww

  10. fifelomo

    April 2, 2017 at 10:13 PM

    Bros and sis run, runnnnnnnnnnnn for your dear lifes.

  11. ade eagle

    April 2, 2017 at 10:40 PM

    i dont know why any Nigerian should go to India hustle

  12. Bigboss

    April 3, 2017 at 4:36 AM

    I remembered when I had to follow my brother for his surgery in India. I went to the market to some things and I met this man who asked me my country, I old him Nigeria, his response was,”hmm, crime country, killings, kidnapping,crime, corruption,crime all over news”. I was embarrassed as other people there now looked at my direction. He could hardly speak good English but all he was saying was that he do watch the news and the only thing he could mention about Nigeria is crime and corruption, I tried convincing him that there are good people in Nigeria but my people he was still shouting crime and corruption and you know this people has loud voice. Na so I just keep quiet to avoid further wahala. They already have the notion that all Nigerians are bad and are criminals. God bless save all Africans in India.Amen

    • aigbe daniel

      April 3, 2017 at 8:51 PM

      there is nothing to say, your country is corrupt and tied with all sort of crimes and atrocities, you would have kept quiet and leave…

  13. Jilo

    April 3, 2017 at 2:03 PM

    I still remember in the late 70’s and early 80’s some of these bastard Indians were making money out of Nigeria either by doing business or working as teachers, teaching in most of our schools under Nigeria government. Now it is their turn to stone us to death as a pay back because they don’t need us anymore.

    Folks, let’s be honest among ourselves, no nation will condone our behaviour especially with all sad news coming out of Nigeria. They were already prejudice about Nigerians and it is going to take a lot of effort to change their perception about Nigeria. We need to repair our decayed system in order to redeem back our lost credibility. Can we bring back our lost respect with all these bad leaders who are only trying to advance more in corruption and turning blind eyes as if nothing happens? .

    The Indians are treating us base on our history and situation back home. They have seen that we are so corrupt and we don’t have any good intentions among ourselves, that is why they were so scared so that we don’t come and ruin them as we have ruined ourselves. Nigeria will do the same if we feel our economy is being threatening.

  14. Chioma

    April 3, 2017 at 2:21 PM

    Its high time we chase these indians in Africa! dirty country

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