This non-fiction journey through six former British colonies is very timely, as five of them made the news this year: Hong Kong (protests); Kashmir (India revoking its special status); Burma (the Rohingya massacres and war crimes charges in the Hague); Iraq (continuing unrest and instability) and Sudan (protests and the ouster of longtime dictator, Omar al-Bashir).  The sixth country, Nigeria, has thankfully had a relatively quiet 2019. Kwarteng’s overall thesis is that the British governed their colonies on an ad hoc basis, with policy being […]