Slavery monument. Ghana, Volta region, near Atoko village
What is the price of colonialism?

The desire to subjugate others has a long and ignoble history. To blithely say ‘thus it ever was’ merely serves to perpetuate suffering with the knowledge that it will cause suffering. History’s broad vistas, viewed through the crystalline lens of hindsight, teach us is that it rarely works out well for the coloniser either…

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Shipping Sugar
The Journey

Why did Remi set out to write the Reap the Forgotten Harvest trilogy? This account details over two years research on the English slave trade across West Africa, the Caribbean and the UK.

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Sambo's Grave
Slave Graves and Other Memorials

Remi and researcher Jill Sudbury are attempting to catalogue all of the slave graves in the UK, an important record of black prescence in Britain before the abolition. And you can help!

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Reap the Forgotten Harvest
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Remi Kapo is author of A Savage Culture and Reap the Forgotten Harvest, available from Central Books.

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Remi has established Acacia Tree Books, an independent, family run, publishing house, which seeks to publish fresh, exciting, new talent.

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About the Author

Remi KapoRemi Kapo has contributed to the New Statesman and New Society; was a researcher for Yorkshire Television and Thames Television’s TV Eye programme; the director of the Roundhouse Arts Centre; and produced Moon on a Rainbow Shawl at the Almeida Theatre, directed by Maya Angelou. He lives in London and Oxford.

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