Immigrant, noun.

Google defines an immigrant as "a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country." We have our own definition.

Dulce Pinzon.

Threatening darker-skinned person from darker-skinned country, escaping poverty and persecution due to policies of lighter-skinned powers who finds residence in lighter-skinned country. Accused of taking job of native lighter-skinned person, who was once an immigrant, too–but did not take job of then native darker-skinned person. Preferred policy was to take entire country, and life of native too – thereby becoming the new native.

Photo Credits: Dulce Pinzon. This is reposted from Garda’s mainstreamisms tumblr.

Further Reading

Davido’s jacket

Davido’s appearance at ‘Amapiano’s biggest concert’ turned a night of celebration into a study in Afrophobia, fandom, and the fragile borders of South African cultural nationalism.

Empty riddles

Drawing on his forced migration from Rwanda, Serge Alain Nitegeka reflects on the forms, fragments, and unsettled histories behind his latest exhibition in Johannesburg.