Anya alleged that the crown was not owned by Elizabeth but “plundered from the lands they exploited and extracted.”
By Jeffrey Agbo
Nigeria-born American associate professor, Uju Anya, has chided the late Queen Elizabeth II for not apologising for the killing of civilians during the Nigerian civil war.
Anya received backlash on social media when she wished Queen Elizabeth “excruciating pain” just after it was announced on Thursday that Her Majesty was under medical supervision.
The associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University also blamed the queen for the displacement of her family during the war.
In an interview with foreign-based news platform, The CUT, Anya gave more insights into her reasons for the attack on the late monarch.
“Even the name Nigeria is from the British. They created this fiction of a country by just arbitrarily drawing lines around territories and saying, ‘Okay, this belongs to the British; this is what we’re going to call it,’ and joining independent nations who had nothing to do with each other, didn’t speak each other’s language. And also electing certain groups they favored to be the rulers,” Anya said.
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“This is the history of the monarchy, and the queen was the head of the monarchy. Whether she was involved in day-to-day decisions or not, she existed because of those decisions. She never once opened her mouth to say sorry for the role of her government in the slaughter of three million civilians.”
Anya alleged that the crown was not owned by Elizabeth but “plundered from the lands they exploited and extracted.”
“Queen Elizabeth was representative of the cult of white womanhood,” said Anya., “There’s this notion that she was this little-old-lady grandma type with her little hats and her purses and little dogs and everything — as if she inhabited this place or this space in the imaginary, this public image, as someone who didn’t have a hand in the bloodshed of her Crown. How did she have that Crown?
“Even the crowns she wears are looted, and plundered from the lands they exploited and extracted from. The entire treasury is a legacy of thievery that was achieved by murder, by enslavement, and it didn’t stop after independence.”