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An extraordinary life: descendant welcomes biography of woman ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria
Source: The Guardian · Published
<p>A girl called Àìná was captured by an African king and later taken to England to become Sarah Forbes Bonetta, protege of the imperial monarch </p><p>When she was seven years old, Bayo Randle’s…
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