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The Axel Johnson Group is a fourth-generation family company. Its roots date back to 1873 in the trading company A. Johnson & Co. The Group consists of four legally and financially independent groups with a common owner, Antonia Ax:son Johnson and family. In addition, the Group has proprietary interests in the British company Spirent plc, listed on the London and New York Stock Exchanges, and in Nordstjernan, which in turn has major interests in other companies, including the listed company NCC. Antonia Ax:son Johnson (born in 1943) is one of Sweden’s richest women and leading capitalists. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building The London Stock Exchange (abbreviated LSE) is a stock exchange located in London. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), known as the Big Board, is the largest stock exchange in the world, although its trading volume was exceeded by that of NASDAQ (historic comparison graph {pdf}) during the 1990s. ... NCC can mean several things: National Cadet Corps - Indian student community, somewhat like the World Scout Movement founded by Sir Robert Baden-Powell National Capital Commission, a Canadian federal commission. ...
Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in the Brixton section of London, Johnson invented dub poetry, a type of toasting descended from the DJ stylings of U-Roy and I-Roy.
The Afro-Brits in Johnson's poems are neglected by the government and persecuted by the police.
Johnson was also instrumental (with his friend Darcus Howe) in the publication of a socialist-oriented London-based newspaper, Race Today, that offered him and other like-minded Britons both fl and white an outlet to discuss the racial issues that, under Margaret Thatcher's reign, seemed to be tearing the country apart.
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