One of Them: An Eton College Memoir - Couverture souple

Okwonga, Musa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783529679 ISBN 13 : 9781783529674

Editeur : Unbound, 2025

Synopsis

'Moving ... stays with you long after you've finished it' Nigella Lawson

'A superb memoir ... written with a poet's lyricism and a journalist's clarity' Nish Kumar

'An urgent exposition on how [Eton]'s undue influence is shaping political forces' Stylist

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 him, challenged him… but also made him wonder why a place that was so good for him also seems 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, and between his home town in the suburbs of Greater London and the rise of the far right.

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 about pressing social and political issues: privilege, the distribution of wealth, the rise of the far right in the UK, 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Unbound
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783529679
• ISBN 13: 9781783529674
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible