'We’re in their country, so they can still do whatever they wish to us.”
So Darasa posted a video on Facebook on April 23 complaining of this “super racist” treatment. Shortly after, two groups of police officers paid a visit to her hotel. They demanded she delete the video, took dozens of pictures of her, for reasons that were never made clear to her, and began phoning friends who were involved in making the video.
BuzzFeed News has spoken with multiple Africans in China who were visited by police after sharing videos of harassment or abuse. Ever since these racist incidents made a wave of international headlines early this month, Chinese officials have scrambled to preserve economic and diplomatic ties they had spent years building with African nations.
A Ugandan known as Omuntu Wawansi, who lives outside Shanghai, secretly recorded while he was interrogated by immigration police last week after helping several Africans facing discrimination in China connect with foreign news outlets. After Wawansi shared the video with the foreigners’ WhatsApp group, he was surprized to get a call from the same police officer he caught on tape.
Wawansi, who is in touch with several hundred black people across China through WhatsApp groups, said many want to leave. Not only are they facing increased discrimination, but the work that brought many to China disappeared when the country shut down its economy. Travel restrictions make it nearly impossible to book tickets from China to countries in Africa — even Americans are having a hard time finding ways home.
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