Toby Green is Professor of African history at King’s College London, UK. His book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (2019) was awarded several international literary prizes and was shortlisted for both the the LA Times Book Prize and the Wolfson History Prize. He is also a co-author (with Thomas Fazi) of The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor – A Critique from the Left (2023).