WHY IS UK QUEEN’S PORTRAIT STILL ALL OVER AFRICA?

Pan-African activist Arikana Chihombori-Quao tells a funny story here about getting to her hotel room in Ghana, only to find a portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II staring down onto her bed. She says she had to have it taken down for the night to make sure her dreams weren’t affected. Quipping aside, though, she makes a serious point: Why do representatives of our former exploiters still bedeck spaces all over the continent and not our own icons? Why wasn’t there a tremendous Ghanaian chief or king on that hotel room wall instead?

Video credits: Africa Web TV