When many African countries ganged up against the white apartheid
regime, nobody thought Black South Africans, in a jiffy, would
barbarously unleash Afrophobia against their own Blacks brethren they
derogatorily call makwerekwere or foreigners. This poesy chides South
Africans and Africans who failed to unite Africa. The Epistle ticks
off all who take pride in their fake and feeble nationality, which,
essentially is a colonial leftover. The message is
point-blank. South Africans must confront their actual problems such as
systemic and systematic injustices and inequities dogging their country
wherein ‒ whites and a few elites still own almost everything ‒ in lieu
of passing the buck.
Nkwazi N. Mhango is the author of over 20 books including Africa
Reunite or Perish and How Africa Developed Europe.