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Howard French has reported for the Washington Post and New York Times from nearly every country in Africa; all over the Caribbean; Japan; and Korea. He is the author of several books, including Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life, and China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa
His latest book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide is an examination of the life of Ghanaian Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, who in 1957 became the first leader of a post-colonial country in sub-Saharan Africa.
On this show, we discuss:
* Kwame Nkrumah’s rise from the son of a goldsmith in a small town to activist to leader of Ghana
* Nkrumah's role in Ghana's independence
* Pan-Africanism
* If there are any lessons from Ghana for Trump’s America
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Howard French has reported for the Washington Post and New York Times from nearly every country in Africa; all over the Caribbean; Japan; and Korea. He is the author of several books, including Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life, and China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa
His latest book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide is an examination of the life of Ghanaian Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, who in 1957 became the first leader of a post-colonial country in sub-Saharan Africa.
On this show, we discuss:
* Kwame Nkrumah’s rise from the son of a goldsmith in a small town to activist to leader of Ghana
* Nkrumah's role in Ghana's independence
* Pan-Africanism
* If there are any lessons from Ghana for Trump’s America

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