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Many Nigerians work in South Africa, but they are sometimes stereotyped as criminals and are often the target of attacks, including fatal ones. Many South African businesses operate in Nigeria, and on Tuesday angry Nigerians protested outside South African stores in Lagos.
The riots this week, said Adekeye Adebajo, a Nigerian academic who leads the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg, are partly the result of the economic frustration many poor South Africans have endured after apartheid.
“The resentment,” he said, “is: ‘We suffered all these years — now that we’re free, we’re not really benefiting from what we fought for.’”
In Johannesburg on Tuesday, Kaanan Philip, a Nigerian immigrant who owns a cellphone accessory shop, stood amid a pile of rubble. A mob had descended on his street on Monday, he said, torching his business, leaving plastic goods melted and the shop blackened and charred.
“We are merely trying to make an honest living,” he said. “We don’t deserve to be treated the way the South Africans have treated us.”
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