The Second Emancipation
nkrumah, pan-africanism, and global blackness at high tide
$96.08
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2025
Summary
The Second Emancipation: Kwame Nkrumah and the Rebirth of a Continent
The Second Emancipation, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post–World War II 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. Determined that readers fully understand Nkrumah’s legacy, bestselling author of Born in Black…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324092452 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1324092459 |
| Author: | Howard W. French |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 880g |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 168mm x 36mm |
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“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
About The Author
Howard W. French
Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City.
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