One of Them: An Eton College Memoir - Brossura

Okwonga Musa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1783529679 ISBN 13: 9781783529674

Casa editrice: Unbound, 2025

Riassunto

Musa Okwonga – a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town – was not your typical Eton College student.

The experience moulded and challenged him… but also made him wonder why a place that was so good for him also seemed to contribute to the harm being done to the UK. The more he searched, the more evident the connection became between one of Britain’s most prestigious institutions and the genesis of Brexit.

Woven throughout this deeply personal and unflinching memoir of Musa’s five years at Eton in the 1990s is a present-day narrative which engages with much wider questions: privilege, the distribution of wealth, the rise of the far right, systemic racism, the ‘boys’ club’ of government and the power of the few to control the fate of the many.

One of Them is both an intimate account and a timely exploration of race and class in modern Britain.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Musa Okwonga is a poet, journalist, broadcaster, musician, social commentator, football writer and consultant in the fields of creativity and communications. He has written on identity, sport, culture and society for a range of publications including Africa Is a Country, The Economist, ESPN, Foreign Policy, the Guardian and the New York Times. He has written and presented essays and programmes for BBC Radio and lectured at several universities. He was one of the contributors to The Good Immigrant. @Okwonga

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Unbound
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1783529679
• ISBN 13: 9781783529674
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile