An Evening with Kojo Koram: The Untold Story of Drugs, Capitalism and Inequality
Event
An Evening with Kojo Koram: The Untold Story of Drugs, Capitalism and Inequality
18 September 2025
6-8pm
Castlefield Gallery
£3, limited free tickets for Castlefield Gallery Associates and anyone on a low income.
Join us for this special event with writer and academic Kojo Koram. Through a talk and Q&A, Koram will be considering what kind of future the recent wave of drug policy reform across the world is leading us towards. Looking at the relationship between drug policy and economic ‘fixes’, he will be exploring what we can learn from the untold story of drugs, capitalism and inequality in the 21st century.
Coinciding with our current exhibition ANEW Way to Peel an Orange this event will add a global, political and historical perspective to the artwork made by Joe Hartley and the ANEW recoverist community.
About Kojo Koram
In addition to his academic writing, Koram has written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, Dissent, The Nation, and The Washington Post and has appeared on CNN and Sky News. He is the editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line (Pluto Press 2019) and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray 2022). Koram teaches at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in Accra, Ghana and raised on Merseyside, he is now based in London. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 2011 and received his PhD in September 2017. In 2018, the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities awarded his PhD the prestigious Julien Mezey Award.
Image: Kojo Koram, Photographed by Tom Trevatt.
