Ghana: Africans Must Go – but to Where?

The troubling scenes unfolding in South Africa, where fellow Africans are being harassed, beaten, threatened, and told to “go back home,” are unsettling to every conscience across this continent.

As the June 30 ultimatum by vigilante groups such as ‘March and March’ approaches, the urgency and ugliness of the situation demands a simple but profound question: if Africans must go, then where should they go to?

Though almost like a rhetorically flourish, the question is rooted in reality, history,…