It was bound to happen ...

Over the last six or more months, there have been calls (and demonstrations) in the UK to remove statues of people involved in slavery in the past, and even to rename anything that hints at our awful past as supporters of the slave trade .... BUT, in my opinion, we have many things in our history which we wouldn't agree with nowadays .... child labour in Victorian factories and coal mines, for example .... so why try and delete history ?  That doesn't make bad things from the past suddenly OK.   But its what is happening, like it or not .... 

... so I wasn't surprised to see this on the BBC ....

Campaign to drop Kenya's colonial place names

Two Kenyan lawyers have petitioned MPs calling for the renaming - and in some cases the removal - of landmarks that "represent British imperial rule".

Lake Victoria, Thomson Falls, Abedare are among the sites of natural beauty that Wambugu Wanjohi and Kariuki Karanja say should be given new names "that reflect the progressive cultural identity of Kenyan people" or commemorate "Kenyan heroes".

"Colonial iconography, symbols [and] monuments" should be removed and replaced with monuments that "promote national values and unity", they add.

Mr Karanja told the BBC that he and his colleague were inspired by events in other countries where statues glorifying imperialism have been torn down.

They say there is no reason all places with colonial names cannot be renamed - as has happened with Lake Turkana, above, previously called Lake Rudolf .... and Lake Bogoria, which used to be Hannington.