"In his latest book, #TheSecondEmancipation: #Nkrumah, #PanAfricanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, the veteran New York Times correspondent, Columbia journalism professor, and author #HowardFrench deftly navigates the global amnesia and national memory wars that surround Nkrumah’s legacy, while also offering a dazzling portrait of the man himself."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/kwame-nkrumah-howard-french-second-emancipation/

#AfricanIndependenceMovements #decolonialStruggles #KwameNkrumah #BlackHistory #books @bookstodon

#Ghana, the first British colony in #SubSaharanAfrica to gain independence, traces itself to 1957 on #ThisDayInHistory, when the three #GoldCoast colonies were joined to #BritishTogoland to form a single dominion. #KwameNkrumah made it into a #PanAfrican one-party dictatorship.

"#HowardFrench’s stunning new book, #TheSecondEmancipation, is an epic of the 20th century’s most consequential years with #Africa’s sudden #decolonisation intertwined with the US #civilRightsMovement, through the many layered portrait of #Ghana’s visionary independance leader #KwameNkrumah."

https://afriquexxi.info/Nkumah-s-epic-from-Ghana-to-Harlem

#BlackHistory #UShistory #AfricanHistory #USpol #USpolitics #AfricanPolitics #panafricanism #decolonialStruggles #Nkrumah #decolonization #books @bookstodon

J'apprends que #ZohranMamdani a un 2nd Prénon : "Kwamé".

En hommage à #KwameNkrumah , artisan de l'indépendance du Ghana en 1960 et un des fondateurs de la notion de #Panafricanisme

Go Zohran, go !

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipédia