Ayisha Osori
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first heard Dec 2025
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Hello, welcome to Opus Society Ideas podcast, a project of the Ideas Workshop at the Opus Society Foundation.
I am Aisha Osori, a director in the Ideas Workshop and an author of two books.
Today, we'll be talking with Howard French about his latest book, The Second Emancipation, Nkrumah and Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
Howard is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, where he was a bureau chief in regions including West and Central Africa, China and Japan.
He's the author of several books on international affairs, including Born in Blackness, Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, and China's Second Continent, How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa.
Thanks for joining me on the Open Society Ideas podcast, Howard.
It's good to see you too.
Thanks again.
So I've shared a brief bio about you, but it would be great to start our discussion with you sharing a bit more about yourself, like where you were born, where you went to school, how you became interested in journalism and the type of well-researched storytelling that you do so well.
Sounds like a dream.
I know.
I wonder if those kind of opportunities still happen today.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Well, thank you for sharing that.
And that takes us perfect into the next question, which is how you came to write this book, The Second Emancipation.
And if in that answer as well, tell us what does the title mean?
I mean, there's some very curious phrases there like second emancipation and high tide that are quite curious.
So why this book?
Why now?
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