Queen Elizabeth II owns the largest clear cut diamond in the world Known as 'The Great Star of Africa' the 530 carats gem was mined in South Africa back in 1905. It was stolen from South Africa. It has an estimated worth of $400 million.

Black and brown people around the world who were subject to horrendous cruelties and economic deprivation under British colonialism are allowed to have feelings about Queen Elizabeth. After all, they were her "subjects" too.

Real question for the “now is not the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism” crowd: When is the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism?

Queen Elizabeth had an estimated net worth of $500,000,000 plus holdings and estates worth an about $25,000,000,000, in 2019. This includes Buckingham Palace, worth over $1 billion, and Balmoral Castle, worth nearly $70 million. The average UK citizen makes about $43,300.

They were at Treetops Hotel in Kenya's Aberdare National Park. Nine months later, hundreds of freedom fighters would hide from British troops in the forest below. In the next eight years, 1.5 million Kenyans would be incarcerated, starved, tortured, in concentration camps.

Fifteen months after "a young girl climbed into a tree one day a princess...and climbed down the next day a queen," the entire Aberdares region was declared off-limits for Africans. Orders were set in place to shoot Africans on sight.

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An incomplete list of British crimes across the world under the reign of Elizabeth II In 1952 Churchill argued Kenyas fertile highlands should only be for white ppl and and approved the forcible removal of the local pop. Hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were forced into camps.

For those saying we should be magnanimous about the passing of the queen, a reminder that the queen inserted herself into the lives of Indigenous people here multiple times. She wasn't a bystander to the effects of colonisation and colonialism, she was an architect of it.

Queen Elizabeth was not universally loved in Africa. My CNN live report on colonialism, fairytales and the Africans who refuse to mourn her death

If you downplayed the queen's power, here's a reminder she successfully lobbied to be exempted from the law of transparency. Parliament also needed the "Queen’s consent" before legislature that would affect private interests could be approved. She had more than symbolic power.

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The entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying.