Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire

Uncovering the scandal of Britain's disastrous treatment of independent countries after empire - and how these decisions are breaking Britain today. 'BRILLIANTLY ARRANGED AND RICH WITH FRESH INSIGHTS, UNCOMMON WEALTH REMINDS US HOW THE FORGOTTEN STORIES OF EMPIRE AND DECOLONISATION CONTINUE TO IMPACT OUR DAILY LIVES IN BRITAIN - AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD - UP TO TODAY' AKALA 'A RADICAL, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR HISTORY - INGENIOUSLY PLACING BRITAIN'S RECENT TUMULT INTO CONTEXT' - OWEN JONES Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it. In Uncommon Wealth , Kojo Koram traces the tale of how after the end of the British empire an interconnected group of well-heeled British intellectuals, politicians, accountants and lawyers offshored their capital, seized assets and saddled debt in former 'dependencies'. This enabled horrific inequality across the globe as ruthless capitalists profited and ordinary people across Britain's former territories in colonial A