If you listened to the crowd’s reaction as he made his way to the main stage at the Scorpio Kings and Friends Live concert at Loftus Stadium in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the Nigerian Afrobeats star David Adedeji Adeleke (Davido) for a local. That’s because in a country where immigration discourse now turns on how carefully we tiptoe around ultranationalist anxieties—and where Afrophobia has become a social currency used to revive fading political careers—a 50,000-seat stadium doesn’t…
