No one mentions what the British were doing in Kenya when she became Queen. Not what they kept doing here for the first decade of her reign. The facts tend to complicate the fairy tale.

From 8 years after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation until well into the 1970s, the British government engaged in Operation Legacy, destroying records of the British empire’s crimes. Now *is* the time to discuss this kind of detail because her death is used to push a sanitised history

If the African proverb "Until the lion learns how to write, the story will always glorify the hunter" was a news piece. #QueenElizabeth

If not today, when? Today is always painful. Today is always inconvenient. Today is always uncomfortable. Today is always disrespectful. But so was yesterday. And so will tomorrow be. Unless we deal with today. Because it is always today.

The way white ppl & some fellow Africans expect civility while outing the sins of the British monarchy & their empire project is something else. Telling the other side of the story, outing crimes of the dead, choosing not to glorify the institution is NOT celebrating death.

Oh and might I add we don’t even have the same kind of agenda/motive the white media & colonization sympathizers have when they frame stories of developing countries 💁🏾‍♀️ yet, you’re uncomfortable that your (not so) past sins & crimes are outed & we refuse to glorify your story 🙄

Abeg 😭

People are like "the queen isn't responsible for all those atrocities, she just supported them in a highly public, highly symbolic, ceremonial capacity that manufactured popular consent for all those atrocities - totally different."

Cancel culture is Black women from the Global South targeted and singled out for abuse by a billionaire & right wing media for refusing to perform civility & respectability about the Queen's death while an entire Irish football stadium sings their delight that "Lizzy's in a box"

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Watch out, Kenya. Learn from a country whose leader(s) are praying for everything for four years instead of doing their job 😫

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He died at the age of 18, after an unhappy childhood, For 150 years, Ethiopians have been asking when Prince Alemayehu will come home. Today Windsor Castle does not only stand as a symbol of medieval splendour but also as a symbol of British thievery and savagery.

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It is not ok! Even with visa #Africa is on its own. Same as for vaccines and health emergencies.