The professor sparked outrage when she wished the queen a painful death. She tells the Guardian about the UK’s role in the ‘slaughter’ her mother fled
Seven years after Nigeria won independence from the UK – and 15 years into the reign ofOn one side was the Nigerian government, desperate to preserve the multi-ethnic state that had been cobbled together by Britain’s colonial administration. On the other were the Biafra separatists who sought autonomy for Nigeria’s Igbo people, an ethnic minority originally from the country’s south who faced persecution and pogroms in the north.
“We lost half of our relatives,” says Anya, who was born six years later. “That’s the legacy of this war. It was a genocide, a slaughter, a holocaust.” In the beginning, it was nothing she couldn’t handle. But then Jeff Bezos entered the chat. “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better?” wrote the world’s richest man. “I don’t think so. Wow.” Not only did Anya double down on her original wish, she offered up another to the Amazon founder, in Igbo. It roughly translates to: “May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonizers.
Anya has not shied from kicking the odd hornets’ nest, either. When the contentious YouTube relationship expert Kevin Samuels
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