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Nigerian-Born US Professor Uju Anya’s Tweet On Queen Elizabeth Polarises Public

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September 09, (THEWILL) – Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University, has caused tongues to wag, over her recent comments on the death of the monarch of England, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday, September 8th, 2022.

While rumours of her death were still ongoing, Anya, wrote in a tweet, “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping, genocidal empire, is finally dying, May her pain be excruciating.”

Jeff Bezos, the third richest man in the world didn’t let the tweet slide, saying, “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.”

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Anya didn’t let Bezos off the hook, after Queen Elizabeth’s death was confirmed, writing: “May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonisers.

“If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch, who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.”

Twitter has since deleted the tweet, but her account still remains.

Her university, Carnegie Mellon University, relinquished any liability from her statements. They posted on their social media, “We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account.

“Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster.”

The public views are polarised, and while some people think it’s not the right time and place to say so, many blame the monarchy and the British government for the genocide of the Biafran people of Nigeria.

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