Barbados becomes a republic – and Britain faces a reckoning

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Barbados has replaced Queen Elizabeth II with president Sandra Mason, and while some are celebrating the change, others ask if a symbolic shift is enough to reckon with the legacy of colonialism. Michael Safi visits Bridgetown to ask whether the country can free itself from its history and what Britain owes to its former colonies and the people whose ancestors were enslaved

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