Charles Abior and his family have been doing business in China for more than 40 years, but this debonair Nigerian says he was denied entry to the recent Canton trade fair owing to fears that he was an Ebola carrier.
Now police call his hotel regularly and government doctors show up to take his temperature every few days. “I keep telling them, Nigeria is Ebola free,” says the businessman, who buys cosmetics in China and sells them in Nigeria.
Africans around the world – even those from countries far removed from the west African nations most affected by the virus – are feeling the brunt of public panic from locals who fear they may catch the dreaded virus from them.