North African leaders, therefore, played an equally important role in the formation of the African Union, the continent's most important geopolitical institution. Prejudices rooted in language, culture, religionRacism expressed by North Africans toward sub-Saharan Africans, however, does not justify its reverse. Nonetheless, I grew up in a Nigeria when almost all our musicians sang about the horrors of Apartheid rule in South Africa. Nonetheless, I am not oblivious to the equally prevalent dichotomy between black Sub Saharan Africa and Arab Northern Africa. Political analyst Imad Mesdoua, a Tunisian raised in Nigeria, asserts that the dichotomy between an Arab North Africa and a supposedly black Sub-Saharan Africa is false.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 28, 2018 13:18 UTC