Ake Festival 2022 | BOOK CHAT - Kovie Biakolo, Howard French, Kojo Karam

Kovie Biakolo, dives deep into our continental history and a possible future with authors Howard French and Kojo Karam. The history of Africa has long been relegated to the outskirts of our global story. However, in French’s sweeping narrative, Africa and Africans are placed in the centre of a history that reframes the origins of modernity through the story of gold, tobacco, sugar, cotton and the twelve million people who were taken from Africa in chains to the ‘New World’. Author Kojo Koram tackles decolonisation, one of the great global changes of the past hundred years, in which Britain played a central role. In his book, he uncovers the scandals of Britain’s colonial past and shows how far-reaching decisions made decades ago are contributing to the forces that are breaking Britain today.