Uncommon Wealth

Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire

Kojo Koram (author)

Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe, profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. However, the greed unleashed in this era would boomerang, now leaving many ordinary Britons wondering where their own prosperity has gone. Ranging from Jamaica to Singapore, Ghana to Britain, this is a blistering account of how buried decisions of decades past are ravaging Britain today.

Dr Kojo Koram is a lecturer at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line. Prior to academia, Kojo worked in social welfare law, youth work and teaching. Kojo has written for the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Nation, Dissent, the New Statesman and Critical Legal Thinking.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Murray (5 Jan. 2023)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781529338645
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 1.91 x 20.32 cm