European royalty has been finding its way to Africa in recent weeks. This follows the state visits of the Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands to South Africa and King Charles III and Queen Camilla of Britain to Kenya.
The visits of the two monarchs to their countries’ former colonies have evoked painful memories of a history of brutality, cruelty, oppression and dispossession against African natives.
The Dutch established the Dutch Cape Colony in 1652 and went on to control it for
