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Spanish TV cameras frequently capture images of undocumented African immigrants flocking to the Canary Islands. The sight of black masses disembarking on the Canaries reawakens centuries-old racial prejudice, says historian Antumi Toasije, cultural councillor with the Pan-Africanist Federation of Spain's Black Communities, who has studied Western stereotypes of Africans, reports the Mail and Gaurdian.