Such sad times for South Africa who had long struggled to live up to the moniker The Rainbow Nation. Nigeria
[FILE] South African looters run through tear gas smoke during a riot in the Johannesburg suburb of Turffontein on September 2, 2019 as angry protesters loot alleged foreign-owned shops in a new wave of violence targeting foreign nationals.
Who remembers the glossy influencer campaign South Africa Tourism rolled out a few years back to lure Nigerian and West African millenials to visit South Africa? Nigerian celebrities and influencers such as Praiz, Noble Igwe, Mai Atafo, Kelechi Amadi-Obi delighted fans on social media for days with beautifully captured and curated documentation of the South African experience… and hospitality.
Such sad times for South Africa who had long struggled to live up to the moniker The Rainbow Nation. Before influencer campaigns took off and press and blogger familiarisation trips were the order of the day, I got to experience South Africa on a 12-day press trip with fellow bloggers from the UK, US, Europe and China.
During my time there, we had the opportunity to speak to both black and white South Africans, and while not openly acknowledged or spelled out, the tension was palpable.
In ‘Nothing’s Changed’ poet Tatamkhulu Afrika riles against the rampant apartheid system in District Six near Cape Town in South Africa and the systemic segregation that’s allowed to continue even though there are no visible signs of it anymore. The ironic title brings to light how the apartheid has changed nothing but the physical appearance of District Six.
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