OpEd: 'I only mourn what could have been if my people’s livelihoods and lives had not been stolen in her name.'
the largest clear-cut diamond in the world, known as the “Great Star of Africa,” which Black township leaders in South Africa have urged the monarchy to return.was always masked
with tight-lipped euphemisms and fictitious rewritings of history. You grow up feeling strange as a Black British citizen — disenfranchised and paranoid. You look around, aware internally of all of the twisted darkness hidden in this country’s past because your very existence in the West is proof of it. Everything that I know about Britain’s colonial exploits I learned at home, in my own time.
But in school? In social settings? You are gaslit into believing that the current monarchy is a harmless relic as opposed to an active and willing participant in the atrocities rained down on the Commonwealth countries. I remember covering the British Empire fleetingly in one history lesson when I was around 14. In order to properly contextualize the relationship between Britain and the Somali people, I must first start with the political context so few students are ever taught.mad rushIn the late 19th century, colonial superpowers formalized economic exploitation of Africa, literally carving the motherland into chunks and assigning bits of her land to various European dignitaries.
enforced by European nations, but no African nations were invited to attend. And from that point on, the audacity and entitlement spiraled.
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