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Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” — David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
The Second Emancipation recasts the liberation of post–Second World War colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana’s revolutionary visionary Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), who emerges as the most significant African leader of the twentieth century. Howard W. French newly dramatises the Nkrumah story, a continent in the throes of liberation and a roiling United States in the Cold War era.
In its dramatic depiction of a continent that once exuded the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation positions not only Africa but also the American civil rights movement at the forefront of modern-day history.
Reviews
"“The Second Emancipation” ably treads the line on Nkrumah’s complicated legacy. French keeps reminding the reader of the larger context, pointing out how European colonies were laboratories not for good governance but for authoritarianism" — Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
"[An] epic narrative… This is a sprawling book, and the better for it. Mr. French has delivered a panoramic, sympathetic, yet analytical portrait of a global Black movement..." — Robert Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal
"[The Second Emancipation] re-creates the era of soaring hopes in Africa" — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker
"[The Second Emancipation] is an important work that deserves to be widely read." — Jonathan M. Jackson, History Today
"In this truly monumental biography of the rise and fall of Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, global observer Howard W. French documents the Cold War hubris that foredoomed Africa’s aspirations in a Greek tragedy of racist pathologies affronted by emancipated leadership. French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head." — David Levering Lewis, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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Paperback, 2022
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Hardback, 2021
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
E Book, 2021
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history
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