Nigeria, June 22 -- By Tuesday next week, all African migrants in South Africa should be back to their home countries. According to the popular opinion of those behind the migrants-must-go campaign in South Africa, African migrants are the cause of all their woes, be it political, spiritual, or economic. To show that they mean business, they have also promulgated that migrants can no longer walk free on the streets of South African cities. Or at least most of them. Many migrants have reportedly been harassed, their businesses looted, and some have paid the supreme price by being killed by their fellow African brothers.

Even before the June 30th deadline, many African countries have begun repatriating their citizens back home. As at the...