who was married to an Indian and even holds a Person-of-Indian-Origin card, says Indians have mostly received him very well. But he adds that they tend to stereotype people from Africa “They think all Africans are bad, that they steal,” says Timothy.This kind of stereotyping has victimised many an African in India over the years. Earlier this month, it was a young girl from Tanzania studying in Bengaluru who fell prey to a mob of locals, for no fault of hers.A car ahead of hers driven by another unrelated African, had fatally injured a local woman and the mob that gathered attacked her and her friends, in retaliation, even burning their car and tearing her clothes. She finally escaped with the help of her friends and a fewpeople who formed a ring around her, according to reports.Almost two years ago, it was another mob, in another city: Three young African students at a metro station in New Delhi were chased and beaten up on the basis of a rumour that they had harassed a girl. Two years before that, it had been the turn of Yannick Nihangaza, a student at Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar who was beaten senseless by a group of drunk locals who had mistook him for another African student. He died after being in coma for two years.At a stretch, one could term all these incidents as one-of-a-kind. But conversations with African nationals living in India, whether for education or work, reveal that though such grievous racial assaults may be exceptions,