NERIMA: If not self-hate taught by centuries of colonisation, what is xenophobia?

Zulu residents of the Jeppe Men Hostel scream waving batons in the Johannesburg CBD on September 3, 2019 after South Africa's financial capital was hit by a new wave of anti-foreigner violence. PHOTO | MICHELE SPATARI | AFP

Driving through the beautiful valleys of Kenya’s stretch of the Great Rift Valley early one morning with a visiting Australian friend, she asked whether maize was indigenous to the country or it came with colonisation.

Interesting question. But what followed led to a whole new conversation.