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As well as sparking demonstrations, the killing of George Floyd has also revived soul-searching about Africa鈥檚 colonial legacy.

It's led a Liberian businessman living in the US state of Ohio, J Patrick Flomo, to write an open letter asking for the name of the Liberian capital of Monrovia to be changed. It was renamed in 1824 after the then US president, James Monroe, who supported the American Colonization Society, created to return American-born former slaves to Africa. But he was also a slave owner himself.

"For us to honour him, naming our capital after him, it is an abomination to our heritage and to ourselves."