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Liam Smeeth is director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a white Englishman helping one of the world’s foremost global health research institutions face up to its colonial roots and legacy (doi:10.1136/bmj.p2232).1 The very founding basis of LSHTM was to prop up and extend colonialism. Is he part of the problem or the solution? Should he make way for somebody more representative of the communities that LSHTM works with? I’m from a former colony, now editor in chief of a journal that undoubtedly built its status, influence, and wealth from the fruits of empire and continues to thrive on the advantage that colonial power delivered. I know all too well the ongoing effects of colonialism on people and nations that were colonised and that, although no longer colonised in law, remain colonised by economics, politics, and inequities. Does that make me a hypocrite, a sellout? Lara Akinnawonu is an early career doctor in the UK with a firm belief that the BMA, her me

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