It is truly rich – almost laughable – for a descendant of immigrants, a man whose forebears were part of the same colonising wave that stole, plundered, and crushed whole continents, to stand up today and attack present-day immigrants without even seeing the blinding irony. Donald Trump speaks as though he is the “owner” of America, yet the only rightful owners of that land are the Indigenous peoples – the Native Americans his kith and kin displaced, exploited, and nearly erased.

And before he lectures anyone about “failed nations,” he should remember that Africa’s past and present are burdened by the slavery, colonisation, resource looting, and generational destruction inflicted by people who look exactly like him – people who built their wealth on African bodies and African minerals. More …