When African students began arriving in significant numbers in the late 1970s, China was just beginning to open up to the world. In Wuhan that year, posters appeared around campuses calling Africans "black devils," and urging them to go home. A Nigerian radio station said the Chinese students "could not bear to see Africans" mix with Chinese girls. "The people who participated in anti-African demos then were university students, and those students were in some ways jealous of the African students," he says. Is Chinese racism the same as Western racism?

Source: CNN May 26, 2020 00:22 UTC