13 June 2024. Beehive Seminar. Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire with Kojo Koram
13 June 2024. 2 - 3 pm
Room 1002 (access via Level 9 stairs)
Melbourne Law School
Beehive Seminar. Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire’
In this talk, we will discuss how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is a 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.