COMMENT I have a soft spot for Africa. I studied the continent a fair bit during my undergraduate days, and spent a few weeks interning in Sierra Leone some 10 years ago.

Faced with the Ridzuan Condominium controversy, I started thinking about how we can separate the signal from the noise?

A blanket ban on all Africans seems to suggest a simple, reductionist logic that is generally typical of racist thinking: I see some Africans engaged in criminal activity, therefore all Africans are criminals.