Xenophobia, or fear of strangers, is a broad term that may be applied to any fear of someone different from themselves.

In South Africa, the violence sometimes labelled xenophobia is usually the final expression of tensions that have been ...

“Xenophobia” was Dictionary.com’s word of the year in 2016, after searches for it surged 938% following the U.K.'s Brexit referendum, and surged again when former president Barack Obama used the word ...

AFROPHOBIA, defined as the fear of other African nationals in a country by the indigenous population, has been on display yet again in the Republic of South Africa in recent weeks. It is often ...

On Thursday 26 March 2026 ActionSA, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the uMkhonto weSizwe party (MKP) joined the xenophobic group March on March in a march through central Durban. Migrants, as well ...

This screen image released by Dictionary.com shows the definition of xenophobia, named as word of the year. Searches for xenophobia on the site increased by 938 percent from June 22 to June 24, ...

Headlines and news cycles are filled with catastrophic proclamations and numbers regarding rising rates of coronavirus in China and growing numbers in the United States. These concerns are also ...