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From Our Own Correspondent: China and Africans : A Pandemic of Prejudice

09/05/2020

China and Africans : A Pandemic of Prejudice

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, China and Africans : A Pandemic of Prejudice

Stories from Italy, Lebanon, South Africa, Ireland and a tale of discrimination in China.

Stories from Italy, Lebanon, South Africa, Ireland and how the coronavirus has compounded discrimination in China where many Africans are being evicted, harassed and scapegoated.

Videos and images of Africans being evicted from their apartments, forced into quarantine, blocked from hotels and even being barred from a local McDonald’s in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou recently went viral on social media. Danny Vincent looks at the way the coronavirus has amplified existing tensions and says the injustices faced by Africans in China are a by-product of authoritarian rule.

Millions of Italians  are enjoying their first taste of freedom, meeting loved ones after a two month long separation now that the  lockdown rules have eased.  But the shutdown inflicted deep wounds in a country which  already had serious economic problems and the south is the hardest hit says Mark Lowen in Naples. 

In Lebanon anger over a failing economy and unaffordable food has pushed protesters into the streets despite fears of infection says Abbie Cheeseman. They are calling it The Hunger Revolution. 

Katie Arnold detects a rebellious mood in South Africa where a film star turned squatter is highlighting shocking disparities between rich and poor when it comes to housing and land ownership.

And Trish Flanagan gets away from it all on a deserted coastal path in the West of Ireland past the soaring Cliffs of Moher where you can sometimes spot puffins, razerbills and peregrine falcons.

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