Monthly Archives: January 2022

Henry Louis Gates’s foreward to ‘Colored People’

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Ekow

Growing Up Colored – Preface to Henry Louis Gates childhood memoir -‘Colored People’ a portrait of life in segregated America. I first read this 28 years ago and this preface remains one of the most lyrical letters to one’s offsprings … Continue reading →

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My picks of 2021 – Amazon rises as the lights go out on GE

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Ekow

My final picks of 2021 are on business and technology- my day job! In October this year, the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, posted a tweet with a picture of the cover page of the May 31st, 1999 edition of … Continue reading →

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My picks of 2021 – Identity and Belonging; Who Dares Wins

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Ekow

In June this year, my good friend Mohammad Chowdhury finally had his book, ‘Border Crossings – My journey as a Western Muslim’, published. My first sighting of the original manuscript must have been in the mid-2000s after he came back … Continue reading →

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My picks of 2021 – Post-WWII order and the tragedy of the Congo

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Ekow

I began the year with perhaps the grandest book on political history in modern times. I was prompted to finally delve into Dean Acheson’s ‘Present at the Creation’ by the memoirs of Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial … Continue reading →

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My picks of 2021 – Civil War, Reconstruction and the Second Founding

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Ekow

It’s that time of the year when I look back at what I read (and in some cases listened to) and share my picks of what I most enjoyed. Not everything in my picks this year was published in 2021; … Continue reading →

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