When the then-Princess Elizabeth visited Kenya in 1952, Kibore Cheruiyot Ngasura was among a group of young men chosen to sing for her at an event near Lake Victoria. The men planned to use the occasion to petition Elizabeth to relocate their parents from a detention camp in the barren, mosquito-infested town of Gwassi, where members of the Talai clan had been held for nearly two decades on suspicion of fomenting resistance to British colonial rule. Before Elizabeth could make it to Lake Victoria, word came that her father, King George VI, had died.
Australians rallied around the country on Sunday to fight for a landmark Indigenous rights reform that is bleeding support in the polls before an October 14 referendum.Cameron Lum, a 34-year-old supporter of the Voice proposal, said he joined the Sydney rally to support "long overdue change in this country".
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Cambridge University established a groundbreaking fellowship to examine the historical significance and enduring effects of Indian indentured labour, the historic system that replaced slavery during British colonisation.