BBC Posts Unflattering Photo From That One Time Nigeria Was Xenophobic

[Vunderkind]

Ghana Must Go, 1983: Two millions of Ghanaians forced to leave Nigeria after the latter asked them to return to their home countries.

BBC wrote: "thirty years ago, Nigeria ordered up to 2 million illegal immigrants to leave the country within a few weeks.

The majority were Ghanaian."

 

[curator]

Nigeria is xenophobic [USERGROUP=4]@Senior Curators[/USERGROUP]

 

[LequteMan]

We didn't kill them.

 

[curator]

We didn't kill them.

Xenophobia is not killing. It is the fear of foreigners which then leads to the abuse of foreigners. So as a very trabalistic soicety Nigerians are xenophobic.

The people killing in South Africa are just genocidal maniacs

 

[LequteMan]

We might be xenophobic, but we didn't kill the Ghanaians.

 

[Temitope]

No, we are not xenophobic. They are illegal immigrants and we simply asked them to leave. We still have many Ghanaians and many other foreigners that came in legally. We've not asked them to leave.

 

[abujagirl]

Xenophobia is not killing. It is the fear of foreigners which then leads to the abuse of foreigners. So as a very trabalistic soicety Nigerians are xenophobic.

The people killing in South Africa are just genocidal maniacs

Nigerians are not Xenophobic. We have a right to deport illegal immigrants; BBC is simply trying to justify the attacks in SA

 

[curator]

forget the bbc report - tribalism is xenophobia, racism is xenophobia.

 

[Vunderkind]

We seem to be having a problem with the word xenophobia. Let it be understood here: Nigeria's action was xenophobic.