In this book, Kyriakakis unfolds the argument that the academic system tends to produce an image of the world as a bulk of unfortunate contingencies irrelevant to the global distribution of power. Especially for Africa, where Kyriakakis conducted his doctoral research as a social anthropologist, he claims that contemporary tendencies in social science conceal the fact that colonialism never ended. On the contrary, it expanded and deepened its grip on the people's minds along with their labour, their crops, and their minerals. The book is autobiographical, it explains a radical change in the author's views while in the field, and it could easily be an exciting novel if it weren't a bitter reality. A must-read for people interested in social change.