Ayisha Osori
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first heard Dec 2025
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I mean, we see that interest, that lingering interest between African-Americans and the continent, at least with Ghana still, and this program of return and people coming back.
So you're right, but it just still somehow feels like more could be happening, should be happening.
But as you say, it's for...
on our end, on the Africa end, for the leaders or the people to push that and on the African-American side for more collaboration, more spaces for speaking, for dialogue and for talking in the way that we saw in the 60s when Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and all the other people who were in Ghana working with Kwame Nkrumah at that time, not just them, but also people like George Padmore.
So
That opportunity or that time seems to be gone.
But as you say, there's still hope and there's still interest.
It's just to see how this can happen on a practical level.
I'm going to move to Nkrumah now because he's come up a few times.
And of course, his name is in the title.
What are some of the most interesting things you learned about Nkrumah from writing this book?
I confess that aside from a few uncomplimentary passages on his development and investment decisions when he led Ghana, this is the first book I'm reading about him that really delves into who he was, how he developed, how he came to be.
And I'm fascinated.
What did you find that was new?
Absolutely.
And it's funny, I think what he did for Guinea under Secretary was amazing and what he tried to do with Mali.
And I have to say that there are certain parts of your book, and no spoilers because we want people to get the book, were very hard to read.
And hearing what the French did in Guinea was, for me, particularly hard to read.
Again, because I grew up as a child, socialized through education, through movies and pop culture.
to sort of idealize the West.
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