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Friday, June 10, 2016

'We Are Scared' — Africans In India Say Racism Is Constant

In this June 8, 2016, photo, an African woman walks through one of the few neighborhoods that rents to people of African origin in New Delhi, India. For hundreds of thousands of Africans drawn to India by better education and work opportunities, rampant racism is a daily battle. In a country where fair skin is prized, their dark skin places them at the lower end of a series of strictly observed social hierarchies. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
Fear and anger. Those are the emotions that shadow Odole Emmanuel Opeyemi every time the Nigerian man steps out of his New Delhi apartment.