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Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram

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The History of Colonialism

The british empire was not just a 500 year world tour of being mean to brown people, it was about extracting resources and hoarding wealth. It was a global system of cultivated and coordinated armed robbery. How is it that this has been rendered so often into a symbolic battlefield in the culture war? And how does that de materialization of our understanding of the history of colonialismd materialize our understanding of what decolonization meant and also what it might mean? I think that o now, speak particularly to the u k.

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