Yomi Kazeem writing in Quartz:
The overriding theme for the eerily similar events was anti-immigration. Nigel Farage, head of the right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), spoke of a “breaking point” and successfully blamed all of Britain’s problems on immigrants and for months, Trump has also grabbed headlines, with a hardline stance on immigration. Part of “Making America Great Again”, Trump told us, is kicking out millions of illegal immigrants and shutting the doors to many other people intending to come into the US even though they meet requirements to do so. That rhetoric won him enough votes to attempt to make good on his promises. Given, he’s hardly mentioned Africans—with Mexicans and Arabs being his preferred targets, but how might Africans be welcome when everyone is shut out? Even Americans are thinking of leaving.