INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY COMPARATIVE STUDIES (IJMCS)
Afro-Phobic Attacks and Human Security: A Call for Sustainable Development in Nigeria
E-ISSN: 4089-4904
P-ISSN: 4279-4976
DOI: https://iigdpublishers.com/article/1580
Push-Pull factors have made nationals of neighbouring African states to migrate to South Africa. However, this inflow has been meted with unprovoked attacks. More so, labours have become highly mobile and can move their services to economies where their services are valued with higher returns. Thus, an incessant attack on non-nationals has elicited debates within academic circles and print media especially in a globalized age. This study Afro-phobic attacks and human security: Call for sustainable developments, is an attempt to examine the phenomenon, history and its effect on human security. The study is historical in nature and employed Social Identity Theory as its analytical tool; relying on secondary sources for data collection. The theory anchors on the assumption that the world is too complex thereby informing the need for social groupings; which identify her members and treat others as strangers which inroad ‘us and them’; a development which rather than bring unity, birthed hatred and division. The study concludes that history of violence coupled with apartheid experiences emboldened the culture of hatred for foreigners. Findings revealed that Afro-phobic attacks are a fresh reminder of anti-immigrant sentiments perpetuated mainly by South African citizens against immigrants and recommended among others for an urgent need for the reconstitution of a vibrant and apolitical economic team, aimed at restructuring Nigerian economy, with a view of actualizing Sustainable Development Goals. The need for a vibrant and promising economy is open invitations to prospective investors; which will in-turn create more employment opportunities thus curbing incessant migration to foreign economies.
SANIKPEGE MICHAEL GODSPOWER & SEKIBO ROWLAND CHARLES
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