Post by cjm on Jun 26, 2016 8:43:26 GMT
Being African in India: 'We are seen as demons'
'I speak Hindi and always laugh. But when I offer biscuits to the neighbours' children, they don't accept.'
By
Aletta Andre
New Delhi/Greater Noida, India - After a year in India, Zaharaddeen Muhammed, 27, knows enough Hindi to understand what bander means. Monkey.
But it isn't even the daily derogatory comments that make him doubt his decision to swap his university in Nigeria for a two-year master's degree programme in chemistry at Noida International University. Nor is it the questions about personal hygiene, the unsolicited touching of his hair or the endless staring. It is his failure to interact with Indian people on a deeper level.
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