Africa; I’ve heard many call it ‘a beautiful land’. These are people who’ve lived there for years; and yet don’t have a single black friend. It would be apt to brand them as hypocrites, maybe even racist. They dissociate the land from it’s people. “The safaris are amazing!”, one swooned. And in the same conversation added, “These blacks are all thugs. Refuse to work hard and then go around begging: look, we’re poor, give us aid.” His view was wholly echoed by many of the Indian expats I met.

On a trip to Tanzania, Megha Swamy finds Africans even more beautiful than the land, and the Indians as prejudiced as at home.