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    ‘I cannot mourn’: Former colonies conflicted over the queen

    chicagoinquirerBy Uncategorized No Comments5 Mins Read
    The Duchess of Kent, seated center on dais, reads a message from the Queen of England in the Parliament House at Accra, Ghana, on March 6, 1957. Ghana, the British colony known as the Gold Coast, is the first black African nation to gain independence from colonial rule. Seated at right is the Governor General Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke and at far right is Lady Arden-Clarke. (AP Photo)

    by Cara Anna, Danica Cotto and Rodney Muhumuza

    NAIROBI, Kenya  — Upon taking the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world, many of them unwil...

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