King Charles III wants to look to the future when his four-day state visit to Kenya starts on Tuesday.
FILE - Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla view part of the Royal Collection relating to the Royal family's connection to Kenya, during a reception for the Kenyan diaspora in the UK at Buckingham Palace, central London, Oct. 24, 2023. King Charles III wants to look to the future when his four-day state visit to Kenya starts on Tuesday Oct. 31, 2023. But first he will have to confront the past. wants to look to the future when his state visit to Kenya starts on Tuesday.
“History never disappears,'' said Nick Westcott, a professor of diplomacy at SOAS University of London and a former director of the Royal African Society. “I think that’s how he sees it genuinely himself — that we shouldn’t paper over the past, pretending what didn’t happen, that you have to face up to it. But then the objective is to look at the future.”
But the colonial administration also replaced Black leaders, pushed local people off their land and imposed crippling taxes. “His Majesty will take time during the visit to deepen his understanding of the wrongs suffered in this period by the people of Kenya,’’ Chris Fitzgerald, deputy private secretary to the king, told reporters before the trip.
But some among a new generation of Kenyans question what links, if any, their country should have with its former colonial power, which left behind not only memories of brutality, but also colonial-era laws, such as the ban of gay sex, that continue to influence attitudes. Local attorney Kelvin Kubai told The Associated Press that more than 100 of the 7,000 victims who were affected have died without compensation.
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