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After students at an Oxford University college in the UK voted to remove a portrait of the Queen of England from their common room, deeming it a symbol of "recent colonial history", the Â鶹Éç’s Esau Williams discusses the extent to which the continent still suffers from the legacy of colonialism. Musa Fadia is a student of journalism at the University of The Gambia, and Elikem Kotoko is a former coordinating secretary of the National Union of Polytechnic Students in Ghana. (Photo: Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony marking Nigeria’s independence; Credit: Getty Images)