Freddie Mercury (who was cagey about being foreign and denied it frequently in England) left Zanzibar because the local Africans started killing a light skinned colonial elite for reasons Zoe would presumably support
Freddie Mercury came to the UK as a kid because people that looked like him were being killed back home in Zanzibar.
In the UK, he formed Queen.
In the UK, he became a global icon.
But he didn’t become British by getting famous. He became British by building a life here.
