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Published 12 March 2021
The United Kingdom’s current High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, trended lately. The occasion was when she rejoiced with a fellow female, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, selected recently as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Laing joined the #BeLikeNgoziChallenge online in which females dressed in the unique style of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister. That time, her surname once again makes me wonder if she’s a relative of a former senior British colonial officer in Nigeria, E.H.B. Laing. As of 1922, until the end of the decade when he retired from colonial service, E.H.B. Laing was the Resident (equivalent to a state governor now) of Zaria Province (now Kaduna State) in Northern Nigeria. He was praised by his superiors for the many years of excellent service he rendered to the Crown at the time he left.
The romance of history with the real Pakistan
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Farewell to Jan Morris, Groundbreaking Trans Explorer of Realms
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Farewell to Jan Morris, Groundbreaking Trans Explorer of Realms
The trans pioneer was the first journalist to climb Mount Everest. February 24 2021 8:52 AM EST
Jan Morris, who died in November 2020 at 94, is best known as the courageous journalist who accompanied the first successful summit of Mount Everest.
Morris went on to write books and articles that guided readers through Wales, many other lands, the history of the British Empire, and her own gender transition. The acclaimed journalist, travel writer, and historian was as eloquent writing about the arc of history as she was the details of her life.
Assigned male at birth in 1926, she became aware of her true gender at a young age but felt she could do nothing about it until she met Dr. Harry Benjamin, a preeminent endocrinologist and an early advocate for social and medical gender transition. Under his advice, she began hormone treatments in 1964 and received affirmative surgery in 1972. She came out publicly two years l