<p>This study examines the racial challenges that African people in the Czech Republic face and what drives racism in the Czech society. The study adopted a mixed method approach which mainly leaned on qualitative inferences of inquiry using primary sources through data obtained from 24 in-depth semi-structured interviews of African people who are based in 8 cities/towns of the Czech Republic. Respondents hail from 12 different African countries – a diverse universe which made the study more informative. Other vital sources of data were drawn from scholarly journals, books, online publications, and official reports. Mainly, African people have ended up in the Czech Republic through educational collaborations between the Czech government and some African governments. However, these collaborations are, in terms of agenda setting, a one-way traffic, in favour of the Czech Republic. For instance, while many African students are now pursuing full-time university education in the Czech Republic, no known Czech students are doing the same in African universities. Only a handful of Czech students go to Africa on Erasmus exchange programs that usually last for only 4 months. The study, however, exposes governance gaps on the question of the plausible drivers of racism from both the Czech side as well as from the African side – disparities that may be responsible for fueling racial stereotyping. The study finds that the recent global wave of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has exposed the deep racial and discriminatory predispositions that for a long time had seemed hibernated in the Czech Republic. The study also finds that attaining higher education or the acquisition of Czech language skills does not provide a safe net from racial discrimination. The official Czech government policy position on the issue of racial discrimination is that the government remains resolute in upholding the human rights principles of fair treatment for all people in its territorial jurisdiction. However, there is a gap between the official policy statements and the reality on the ground. The study concludes that because discrimination is in part linked to the economies, African governments must focus on a development growth agenda that reduces the incentive for migrations of their people through prudent economic management that would increase African agency and hence attract Africans to seek opportunities from within the continent, rather than going overseas.</p>