This is how South Africa repays the country that paid for its freedom.” Those who say Nigerians should stop talking about South Africa and face Nigeria’s own problems have it exactly backwards. Many in our country are boiling with anger today about what is happening to our compatriots in South Africa and this is understandable. The reality is that we are one and when a black South African attacks an African national he is attacking himself. Chief Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Culture and Tourism and a former Minister of Aviation, is the Ambassador-Designate of Nigeria to South Africa.