Mixed feelings among some in Africa for Queen Elizabeth

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As condolences poured in from around the world after Queen Elizabeth's death, some Africans expressed mixed feelings about the monarch and her country's colonial legacy on a continent where Britain once ruled more than half the territory.

Some had fond memories of Britain's longest serving monarch -- who came to smile and wave at crowds in 20 countries across the continent during her 70-year reign.

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo, whose country the queen visited in 1961, four years after it became one of the first African countries to get independence, lowered flags and said Ghana was proud to be part of the Commonwealth of nations. "Our interaction with Britain has been one of pain, ... death and dispossession, and of the dehumanisation of the African people," it said, listing atrocities committed by British forces in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Some Nigerians recalled Britain's support in the 1960s for a military dictatorship that crushed the Biafra rebellion in the east of the country. Igbo officers launched the rebellion in 1967, triggering a three-year civil war that killed more than 1 million people, mostly from famine.

 

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Don't lair no mix feeling

Captured media! She is the devil even in hell

We are clear, no mixed feelings... Those who are mourning Lizbeth are colonial clerks and trying to act nice in front of UK monarchy

No mixed feelings at all!

The post_colonial brutality & tribal-Apartheid make British colonial rule a paragon of good governance. Where is the evidence? The mass-migration in search of safety & better life in the countries of former colonisers👇🏾

There no mixed feelings, Africans are not happy about how the Queen treated our forefathers!!

No,we are not mourning the death of this thief and murderer!!!

Nonsense

Mixed feelings 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Aowa kgosi we don't have mixed feelings on this side. We are generally doing well and welcoming the death of Queen Lizzy.

Stop lying. We are very clear! We are not moaning any coloniser!

No mixed feeling ,EFFSouthAfrica has represented the Continent,anything counter to that is a joke !

We don't have mixed feelings did you read Julius_S_Malema and EFF statement that's our feelings.

True talk, whether to call her our slave master or our bread and butter

There must not be any mixed feelings. She did her best in the complex male dominated planet of ours. May her soul rest in peace!

Most Africans mourn her Majesty's demise. Don't mind what u read on social media

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