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

byHoward W. French

Howard W. French places Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah at the center of the era when African independence and Pan-African solidarity seemed capable of remaking world politics. He traces Nkrumah's rise, governing ambitions, international alliances, and eventual fall while mapping connections among Africa, the Caribbean, the United States, and global Black movements. The book recovers a “second emancipation” that extended beyond the end of formal colonial rule toward economic and cultural liberation. French examines both the movement's exhilarating possibilities and the forces that fractured them.

Publisher

Liveright

Publication date

2025-08-26

Format

Hardcover

Pages

512

ISBN

9781324092452