As the third week of the Russian assault on Ukraine begins, the treatment of African refugees in Ukraine remains at the forefront. AfricansInUkraine
When the war started, efforts by African and African descendant students and families to escape the confrontation were met with a race-based pushback often caught on video and uploaded to social media sites.“I’m a volunteer from London,” explains Damilare Arah, a British Nigerian tech designer who has worked in project management and as a business development manager. Damilare explained to thethat he woke up on Thursday, Feb. 24 to find out that Ukraine had been attacked.
“I heard that Africans were being racially profiled, abused and being pushed back in queues for the sake of other Europeans. So, from then I kicked into a crisis management mode. I know that many people didn’t know that there were Africans in Ukraine so the first thing I had to do was get everybody to know and understand their situation.
. He says he double checked and verified that the videos were taken and recorded on the day they were reported. “The first thing I did was help the community understand that we’ve got to be clean and clear about this situation—that nobody’s going to be able to save us in this instance and we have to all work together to be able to get the message out there.”We are currently at the Ukraine -Poland border.
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