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Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africa’s largest Black nation? Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Image credit Gage Skidmore via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0. Trump’s posting of racist images of the Obamas provoked condemnation across the world, though few outside Nigeria noticed what happened next. As the images spread, Nigerian timelines lit up. In Nigeria, the reactions were sharply divid