.UjuAnya spoke with bindubansinath about the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the backlash she's faced for speaking frankly about colonialism
, who responded, “This is someone supposedly making the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.”
My experience of who she was, and the British government she supervised, is a very painful one. The harm shaped my entire life and continues to be my story and that of the people she harmed — that her government harmed, that her kingdom harmed, however you want to frame it. The genocide of the Biafra killed 3 million Igbo people, and the British government wasn’t just in political support of the people who perpetrated this massacre; they directly funded it.
The response you received on Twitter suggested the ways that many exempt the queen from the British colonial legacy, especially since she’s so adored.
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