The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide

Howard French

In its dramatic recasting of the American civil rights story and in its tragic depiction of a continent that once exuded all the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation becomes a generational work that positions Africa at the forefront of modern-day history.

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Plus, read more of Howard's writing in a Nov. 2025 Wall Street Journal article and a New York Times opinion piece