The Wealth Of Chains: Colonialism’s Hidden Economy

The Wealth of Chains: Colonialism's Hidden Economy is a fearless, deeply researched expose of how the modern world was truly built — not through innovation alone, but through a global system of extraction, domination, and engineered inequality. Mpho Quintin Sekao reveals how slavery, land dispossession, resource plunder, and cultural erasure created the economic foundations that still empower nations like Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States today. From Africa to India, Korea to the Americas, the book uncovers how colonial powers constructed a global economy designed to enrich themselves while trapping colonized nations in cycles of dependency, poverty, and debt. Sekao breaks down how modern banking, currency manipulation, trade rules, mining empires, and corporate monopolies are not new — they are simply updated versions of old colonial strategies. Using examples from South Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, and beyond, he shows how the legacy of the Berlin Conference still shapes borders, conflicts, and economic realities across the Global South. But this book does more than expose injustice. It reveals how the global order fears true empowerment — especially Black empowerment — because it threatens centuries of unearned privilege. It connects the message of Sekao's Work, Why the World Fears Black Empowerment and The Movement, showing how reclaiming identity, unity, and economic strength is the only path to true liberation. At its core, The Wealth of Chains is both a warning and a blueprint: a warning about the invisible systems that still hold nations hostage, and a blueprint for breaking those chains through knowledge, strategy, and collective awakening. Bold. Uncompromising. Transformative. This is the truth the world was never meant to hear — and the beginning of a new chapter for all oppressed peoples seeking justice, restoration, and power.