The video not only reflects the love of the Commonwealth for the Queen but shows how connected to the Mother Country the nation was in the years before it’s independence, particularly the turbulent years of World War II. Here in this video is my friend’s mother, Mrs Akinyele, singing a medley of various songs, and adapting one of them, in the middle and at the end, to reflect the events of the last 58 hours with the passing of The Queen. Various tribes, communities, local schools, local groups, all made up their own short folk songs in her honour. Growing up, I heard songs that were composed for her visit in the 50s, when she came as part of her tour of the Realms and Commonwealth countries. But, growing up as a young girl in Nigeria, a commonwealth country, the Queen was not just THE Queen, she was the people’s Queen.īefore independence in October 1960, Nigeria was a British Colony, and at the time of the Queen’s ascension was still under British rule, therefore it was one of her Majesty’s realms. Elizabeth II is definitely THE Global Queen. The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, in tribute to the Queen, said to the people of UK: ‘To you, she was your Queen.
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