Why I wished Queen Elizabeth 'excruciating pain' - Professor

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Nigerian-born American teacher Uju Anya has spoken again about her comments on the late Queen Elizabeth II of England.

Anya, in an interview with overseas-based news platform The CUT, revealed her reasons for wishing the Queen "excruciating pain".

She said the throne of the late Queen Elizabeth II 'represents the legacy of slavery and colonialism and its direct damage', adding that she oversaw the British government which caused her very painful harm , and “harm has shaped my entire life and continues to be my story and that of the people it has hurt.”

On Thursday, Anya had tweeted hours before the Queen's death, saying, "I heard that the head monarch of a genocidal, thief and rapist empire is finally dying. May his pain be atrocious."

The tweet has since been removed for violating "Twitter Rules".

In another tweet, Anya referred to the British Empire's alleged role in supplying arms and ammunition to the Nigerian government during the civil war that lasted from 1967 to 1970.

"If anyone expects me to express anything other than disdain for the monarch who oversaw a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and whose victims are trying still overcome the consequences, you can continue to wish for a star," she wrote after news of the queen's death was announced.

His tweets caught the attention of many, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who tweeted the post quoting the post, saying, "He's someone who's supposed to work to make the world a better place? I don't think so. Wow."

She responded to Bezos by writing, "May all whom you and your ruthless greed have hurt in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonizers."

She said: "On Thursday I was reading the BBC, which reported that there were concerns for the Queen's health and that death was imminent. emotions and pain - mostly pain - about who this monarch was and what she stood for, not only in the broad sense of what her throne represents, the legacy of slavery and colonialism, but also the direct harm. People say, 'Oh, she's just a figurehead, she really didn't do anything, like she's kind of removed from this. They tell me, you're talking about colonialism. Was even in your lifetime?"

“My experience of who she was and of the British government she oversaw is very painful. Evil has shaped my whole life and continues to be my story and that of the people she hurt – that her government hurt. hurt, that his kingdom hurt, however you want to put it. The Biafra genocide killed 3 million Igbos, and the British government was not just political support for the people who carried out this massacre they funded it directly. They gave it political cover and legitimacy.

She told The CUT: "It's not just something I read about. I was born to colonial subjects on both sides of the family - a relative from Trinidad, where the British reduced the slaves, and a relative from Nigeria.They met in England at university and returned to Nigeria after independence in 1960. My parents were survivors of that genocide.My three siblings , two of whom were under 10 at the time, were survivors. My mother was pregnant with my brother, who was born at that time; he was a war baby. That was the legacy I am in born in 1976. I spent the first ten years of my life in Nigeria, and there was always this specter of who was lost. My earliest memories were of living in a war-torn area, and reconstruction is not still not over even today Half my family was slaughtered with guns and bombs that queen sent for r kill us.

"Queen Elizabeth was a representative of the cult of the white woman."