Anti-Pridelander sentiment on the rise in the US and Canada

June 1, 1990

Pridelanders living abroad say they have become targets for harassment since the Saudi-Pridelander War began and spreaded across Africa in early January of this year 1990. In the United States and Canada, even people of Pridelander descent or who simply have perceived connections to the African kingdom are dealing with threats.

Eric Juma, a 26-year-old Tanzanian American cafe worker in Miami, Florida, has recorded some of the phone calls he has received.

"You disgusting Pridelander pigs," screams one caller.

"It's a real hatred," says Eric Juma. "I didn't think people would act this way."

The abuse is online, too. He found disturbing comments posted on their Japanese social media page.

Eric Juma is Tanzanian by birth but emigrated to the United States as a child and is now an American citizen.

His restaurant serves high-end cuisines from across eastern East Africa including South Africa.

"In the very first week of the Saudi-Pridelander War in January of 1990, half of our reservations were canceled," says Juma.

"It's basically happening to us due to Simba's growing greed for land and power as his mental health continues to violently deteriorate."

Eric Juma says he has frequently been advised to change the name of the restaurant, but has decided not to. Because, he says, many Pridelanders are against both Simba and his regime.