Nigeria, Aug. 7 -- To buttress the point, permit me to share the words of Mr Kio Amachree, a Stockholm-based Nigerian writer.

On 13th July, he wrote the following on X:

"I do not know a Nigerian who would sell his soul the way the anti-immigrant mobs of South Africa have done this past month. Every unreconstructed apartheid nostalgist is laughing behind his locked gates at how easily these movements were turned against their fellow Africans, doing the dirty work of division for free and making the power grab of others so much easier."

He added:

"Ask the obvious question. Who is writing the cheques? March and March charters buses across provinces, prints shirts by the thousand, stages press conferences and floods social media with coor...