The beginning of this book is incredible. Akala makes so many excellent points so well I felt like I was highlighting every other sentence on my Kindle! I felt the book slightly lost focus towards the end but it was still a good read and it may have just been me losing focus, since I moved countries in-between! Either way, the book has taught me a lot and given me plenty of ideas on where to go next in my reading. It makes very clear the gaps in our education system and in my personal education, especially in regards to black history and Britain's imperial history and hypocrisies.

As this book is 3 years old, it's also a sad but necessary demonstration of how needed the BLM movement is - all of the problems and frustrations described in the book are still around today.