Dr. Uju Anya tweeted on Thursday: “Heard the arch-monarch of a thieving genocidal raping empire finally dies. Let her pain be excruciating.” Dr Anya followed up her original tweet with another post, stating: “If anyone expects me to express anything but contempt for the monarch who oversaw a government that supported genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which are those who are alive today. still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing on a star.” He also hit back at Mr Bezos, writing directly to him on Twitter: “Otoro gba gbue gi” – which roughly translates to an Igbo insult that wishes someone dead – “May all you and your merciless greed have harmed this world to they remember you as fondly as I do my colonists.’ Now, in an interview with The cutDr. Anya expanded on her tweets and discussed the backlash, explaining that she has been banned from Twitter, but that the hate mail was reaching her via email. Speaking about Mr Bezos’ response, he said: “Jeff Bezos incited violence against me. He rarely tweets in his own voice, but he took the time to single me out when literally half the planet rejoiced at the news. I can’t ignore racism and misogyny – the emails I get start with the N word, bitch, genetically inferior, all kinds of things. I don’t open them, but I see the subject lines.” Dr. Anya, who describes herself on Twitter as “anti-racist” and “feminist,” was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father and a mother from Trinidad and Tobago. Both countries were colonized by the British – Nigeria became independent in 1960, with Trinidad and Tobago following two years later. Explaining her thoughts on the monarch and what he stood for, Dr Anya told The Cut that it goes beyond the legacy of slavery and colonialism and leads to direct harm. “My experience of who she was, and the British government she was overseeing, is very painful. The damage shaped my entire life and continues to be my story and the people it damaged — that its government damaged, that its kingdom damaged, however you want to frame it. The Biafra genocide killed 3 million Igbo people and the British government was not only for political support of the people who committed this massacre. they funded it directly. They gave him political cover and legitimacy,” he said. Stressing that this was something that directly affected her family and her life to this day, Dr Anya said it seemed “deeply insulting” to be told she should cry over the death of someone who killed her people when to her he is “violent oppressor”. “In my tweet, I did not wish her dead. I didn’t tell anyone to kill her. I said nothing except to wish her pain in the death she caused millions of people. I’m not going to apologize for me. I stand by what I said. As a direct recipient of her rule and as a child of colonial subjects, I reserve the right to say what this woman’s life and monarchy and the history of the British monarchy as a whole mean to me.” Dr Anya’s employer, Carnegie Mellon – the Pennsylvania university where she is an associate professor of second language acquisition – issued a statement on Thursday. “We do not condone the offensive and unacceptable messages posted by Uku Anya today on her personal social media account,” the university tweeted. “Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views he shared do not fully represent the values ​​of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to promote.”