President Trump stirs controversy by calling Afrikaners, minority descended from Dutch colonists, victims of a ‘genocide’, after the first 59 South Africans arrived in the US were granted refugee status. The truth perhaps is that if white people are threatened, and they are although not as much as Trumps believes, they are no more so than Dinka and Nuer, in South Sudan, or Igbo and Fulani in Nigeria, or Zulu and Xhosa in South Africa itself. Racism is still a structural feature of African society