Racism in Africa: The Whites Are Not to Blame

Interestingly, despite the adoption of the convention committed to the elimination all forms of racial discrimination in 1965 by the International Community, no country can still claim to be free of racism and stigma it brings. This article looks through the problem of diversity in conceptual axes of racism and discrimination. The work encourages a shift of paradigm from the blame game that Africans play whenever the concept “racism” is mentioned. In this simple way, this work seeks to depart from the original discourse that always views and problematizes African ‘racialized’ as black and projects a noncolour discrimination. The work answers the question of blackness in and outside Africa. The intention in this work is not to be bogged down by the existence of hate crimes in and outside Africa but to examine critically, meandering the title of literary text of Ola Rotimi, The gods are to Blame, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus to show how the Whites should not be blamed. This article differs from other critical articles of racism in that it draws antecedents from some racialized Africans in the diaspora. This paper projects a ‘new’ Africa where citizens would not be ashamed of their history and whatever defines them.