Coronavirus: crackdowns, racism and forced quarantine heighten tension for Africans in Guangzhou

For the first time in the 16 years he has been in China, William Akuma was asked in April to leave his own home.“They came to my house, and said every black person needs to be quarantined,” Akuma, chairman of the Cameroonian Community Guangdong, said. “I’ve been in China since the beginning of the outbreak, why should I quarantine? So I refused it.”Akuma took the stand against forced quarantine in early April at a time authorities in the southern gateway city of Guangzhou were concerned about…

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