#howardfrench — Public Fediverse posts

"In his latest book, #TheSecondEmancipation: #Nkrumah, #PanAfricanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, the veteran New York Times correspondent, Columbia journalism professor, and author #HowardFrench deftly navigates the global amnesia and national memory wars that surround Nkrumah’s legacy, while also offering a dazzling portrait of the man himself."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/kwame-nkrumah-howard-french-second-emancipation/

#AfricanIndependenceMovements #decolonialStruggles #KwameNkrumah #BlackHistory #books @bookstodon

« Entretien · Dans un nouvel ouvrage, l’historien #HowardFrench raconte l’épopée des luttes entrelacées pour la #décolonisation de l’#Afrique et pour les #droitsCiviques des Noirs aux États-Unis, à travers le parcours de #KwameNkrumah. »

https://afriquexxi.info/L-epopee-Nkrumah-du-Ghana-a-Harlem

#TheSecondEmancipation #BlackHistory #mouvementDesDroitsCiviques #histoireAméricaine #histoireAfricaine #politiqueAméricaine #politiqueAfricaine #panafricanisme #luttesDécoloniales #Nkrumah #livres @bookstodon

"#HowardFrench’s stunning new book, #TheSecondEmancipation, is an epic of the 20th century’s most consequential years with #Africa’s sudden #decolonisation intertwined with the US #civilRightsMovement, through the many layered portrait of #Ghana’s visionary independance leader #KwameNkrumah."

https://afriquexxi.info/Nkumah-s-epic-from-Ghana-to-Harlem

#BlackHistory #UShistory #AfricanHistory #USpol #USpolitics #AfricanPolitics #panafricanism #decolonialStruggles #Nkrumah #decolonization #books @bookstodon

'Finding ways of limiting Africans’ advancement was central to #Belgium’s strategy for sustaining its dominance over a land so rich in resources that it was often called a “geological scandal.” '

#HowardFrench reviews #TheLumumbaPlot, #MyCountryAfrica, and the #documentary #SoundtrackToACoupDÉtat

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/09/25/a-damn-nuisance-patrice-lumumba/
https://archive.ph/SNQHc

#Congo #BelgianCongo #imperialism #colonialViolence #PatriceLumumba #CIA #covertOps #ColdWar #cinema #books @histodons @bookstodon @film