The New Age of Empire

How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

By: Kehinde Andrews

Narrated by: Kehinde Andrews

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

A damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-Black colonialism continue to inform our modern world.

Colonialism and imperialism are often thought to be distant memories, whether they're glorified in Britain's collective nostalgia or taught as a sin of the past in history classes. This idea is bolstered by the emergence of India, China, Argentina, and other non-Western nations as leading world powers. Multiculturalism, immigration, and globalization have led traditionalists to fear that the West is in decline and that white people are rapidly being left behind; progressives and reactionaries alike espouse the belief that we live in a post-racial society.

But imperialism, as Kehinde Andrews argues, is alive and well. It's just taken a new form: one in which the US and not Europe is at the center of Western dominion, and imperial power looks more like racial capitalism than the expansion of colonial holdings. The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and even the United Nations are only some of these modern mechanisms of Western imperialism. Yet these imperialist logics and tactics are not limited to just the West or to white people, as in the neocolonial relationship between China and Africa. Diving deep into the concepts of racial capitalism and racial patriarchy, Andrews adds nuance and context to these often over-simplified narratives, challenging the right and the left in equal measure.

Andrews takes the listener from genocide to slavery to colonialism, deftly explaining the histories of these phenomena, how their justifications are linked, and how they continue to shape our world to this day. The New Age of Empire is a damning indictment of white-centered ideologies from Marxism to neoliberalism, and a reminder that our histories are never really over.

©2021 Kehinde Andrews (P)2021 Bold Type Books

Now I understand!

The purpose of colonies. Why African counties have not advanced even with freedom from colonial rule. Why the US has had a long history or involving itself in the rule of African, Latin American, and Middle Eastern counties. What “neoliberalism” is. What’s really happening in the US now.

Probably the most insightful book since…

Historian, Kehinde Andrews “The New Age of Empire” is a groundbreaking historical book that gives deep insights on non white-washed world history, western colonialism, neo-colonialism and imperialism.
Each chapter is filled with so much knowledge. It’s the most informational book I’ve read since Dambisa Moyo’s “Dead Aid” and Walter Rodney’s “How Europe underdeveloped Africa”.

In a world where white supremacy isn’t the order of the day, this book along with the others I listed will be required in every middle/high school and even universities across Africa, Europe and the United States.

I look for forward to Mr. Andrews future works.

All-time Great Book from a Brilliant Thinker

Woooowww. This analysis blew my mind. This is a must read for those seriously interested in the progression of true liberty.

Painful truth!

This book is essential reading for anyone who is engaged in global economic development, whether through business or foreign aid initiatives. Good intentions are not enough!

Excellent Book

I really liked this book. I heard the author speak at a debate once and found him quite sharp and the book didn't disappoint one bit. Kehinde writes well, (narrates just as well), and is perhaps brutally honest, but I found that both highly informative and likely striking the right tone. Well worth the time to read and think about.

A must read

This book will challenge your thinking and force you to rethink your worldview. It’s well researched, well written, and does not have any agenda besides exposing the truth.

A deep and thoughtful discussion about world’s inequality

The author’s deep and thoughtful discussion about world’s inequality by looking through the history of imperialism in the world is very enlightening. The use of the third-world countries perspectives in the book feel refreshing, as it finally feels like the world is willing to see history not only from the winner (or in this case, the oppressor), but also the loser (or in this case, the oppressed).

Review

Book provides good view on neoracist world view and conspiracy theory where everything bad happening the world is due to Whiteness. No alternative explanations are needed and even suggesting one is considered racist. Helps to understand ideology that makes activists so angry, but does not really go further in actually providing real solutions.

one sided nonsense: the Afrocentric neo racist nature of the New Age of Empire

The enlightenment should be seen as a cube, one side of which is racist ideologues. But there are six sides to a cube. Secondly, Prof. Andrews leaves out the entire pre-enlightenment period of colonialism; i.e., the Colonial enterprise led by the Spanish Portuguese forces, in the conquest of the new world which was the incarnation of anti-enlightenment ideologies, centered as they were in the Catholics doctrine of discovery. From 1492 to 1700 the main form of the justification for colonialism of the New World were created by Catholic Theologians. Catholic colonialism was threefold: mineral extraction, Especially silver and gold; control over the huge. land spaces of Central and South America, plus Mexico; and the conversion of Native Americans and African slaves to Catholicism. The enlightenment had nothing to do with this period of time. The other five categories of the Enlightenment are as follows: the revolutionary discovery of fundamental nature of human consciousness, reason; the expansion of the scientific method. The rise of secular educational systems which our author is a beneficiary of; most of all, the rights of man movement, in which thousands of non-whites were involved symbolized by the Haitian revolution leading to the creation of a new kind of state: the creation of the bourgeois parliamentary democratic republic.

So Dr Andrew’s presentation is like a lot of silt, with a few fragments of truth, like bits of gold found in the midst of his nonsense. Useful was the list of the racist, ideologues who we usually associate with enlightenment philosophy. But he does not discuss fully the anti-racist philosophers, like Rousseau, Woolman, and Priestly. But what is extremely useful about his nonsense is the reality of an international form of Negrophobic racism, which was going to be a major aspect of capitalism, and all three of its phases: merchant, industrial, and financial. To that degree his poorly researched analysis, supplements, Lenin’s imperialism analysis.

And, of course, he says nothing about Muslim expansionism into the Eastern world. And like most Afrocentric neo racists he never defines what Europe is, and where it is geographically located, and how many of these Europeans were involved in the enlightenment in the first place, given the fact that religious monotheism was the primary form of cultural psychological control in large areas of Europe.