False accusations of cannibalism have long surrounded the African community in India. They have grown since an Indian teenager briefly went missing last month in this fast-growing city outside New Delhi — and his mother accused five Nigerian men of eating him.http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-i...423-story.htmlZubair Isa Sulaiman, a 30-year-old from northern Nigeria, said that when children see him walking in the street they sometimes cross to the other side. Others laugh or point. Landlords have refused to rent to him, and shopkeepers overcharge him.
The first Hindi words he learned were epithets aimed at him: kala (“black”), chor (“thief”), bandar (“monkey”).