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THE SYSTEMIC AND CULTURAL ISSUES WE

ARE NOT DEALING WITH IN AFRICA

THE ISSUE OF NIGERIANS SELLING DRUGS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Samuel Phillips, Kenya.

lmost all of the times when the into prostitutes, of taking their jobs and
issue of foreigners doing drugs in the list of many other things. So lately
ASouth Africa comes up, Nigerians there has been calls by South Africans for

always seems to be the center of the discuss, Nigerians to be deported from their country.
especially from the side of South Africans. Interestingly, you find many of these reports
This has been going on for a long while now on social media but hardly find them on the
and I do hope that some lasting solutions will mainstream media. I wonder why though.
be created for the issue.

Anyway, I do not live in South Africa,
South Africans accuse Nigerian citizens of so I don’t have an on-the-ground opinion
bringing drugs to their country, of taking about the things going on. But I think some

their women, of turning their young women common sense will help me say a few things

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