BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRO - BRITISH " KWASI ALFRED ADDO KWARTENG " IS A BRITISH POLITICIAN AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (MP) FOR THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

                                             BLACK             SOCIAL              HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng  born 26 May 1975  is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2010 representing the constituency of Spelthorne in Surrey.

Early life

Kwarteng was born in London. His parents migrated to the UK from Ghana as students in the 1960's.

Kwarteng attended Eton College as a King's Scholar, and then went on to Cambridge University where he read Classics and History at Trinity College. He was a member of the team which won University Challenge in 1995 (in the first series after the programme was revived by the BBC in 1994). He attended Harvard University on a Kennedy Scholarship, and then earned a PhD in Economic History at Cambridge University.

Prior to becoming an MP, Kwarteng worked as an analyst in financial services. He has written a book, Ghosts of Empire, about the legacy of theBritish Empire, published by Bloomsbury in 2011. He has also co-authored (with Jonathan Dupont) the book Gridlock Nation on the causes and solutions to traffic congestion in Britain.

Political career

Kwarteng was the Conservative candidate in the constituency of Brent East at the 2005 general election. He finished in third place behind the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather (who had won the seat in a 2003 by-election) and Yasmin Qureshi of the Labour Party. Kwarteng was chairman of the Bow Group in 2005-06. In 2006, The Times suggested that he could become the first black Conservative cabinet minister. He was sixth on the Conservative list of candidates for the London Assembly in the 2008 London Assembly election, but was not elected as the Conservatives claimed only three London-wide list seats.

Kwarteng was selected as the Conservative candidate for Spelthorne at an open primary in January 2010 after the incumbent Conservative MP, David Wilshire, became mired in controversy arising from the Parliamentary expenses scandal and announced that he would be retiring from Parliament at the next general election. Kwarteng was described by a local paper as a "black Boris". At the 2010 general election, Kwarteng won the seat with 22,261 votes (claiming a majority of 10,019).

In August 2012, Kwarteng co-authored a book, Britannia Unchained. In it, the authors claim that "Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world".