{"id":32441,"date":"2023-03-10T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/across-post-colonial-africa-foreigners-are-an-easy-scapegoat#id32668"},"modified":"2023-03-10T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:39:00","slug":"thomas-lesaffre-across-post-colonial-africa-foreigners-are-an-easy-scapegoat-for-an-elite-thats-failed-to-redistribute-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/thomas-lesaffre-across-post-colonial-africa-foreigners-are-an-easy-scapegoat-for-an-elite-thats-failed-to-redistribute-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Lesaffre: Across post-colonial Africa, foreigners are an easy scapegoat for an elite that\u2019s failed to redistribute wealth."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>After 29 years of neoliberal failure, xenophobia appears a satisfying answer for a national bourgeoisie that has thus far avoided redistributing sufficient wealth to the majority of South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/africasacountry.com\/2022\/10\/ghana-must-go\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Africa Is a Country<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/across-post-colonial-africa-foreigners-are-an-easy-scapegoat\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        After 29 years of neoliberal failure, xenophobia appears a satisfying answer for a national bourgeoisie that has thus far avoided redistributing sufficient wealth to the majority of South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>        &amp;#x021&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32442,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441\/revisions\/32442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}