Ayisha Osori

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New Books in Intellectual History · Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

I didn't know that Lumumba in a way was radicalized by his attendance of the All African People's Conference.

And again, speaks to my own, I don't want to say miseducation or undereducation.

But I'm curious, considering Fanon's warning at the December 1958 All African People's Conference in Accra,

that it was time for African countries to prepare for violent conflicts.

How hard was it for you writing about the disintegration of Congo's independence within weeks, especially the role played by soldiers?

And any reflections on Fanon's position, particularly today in the shadows of Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine?

In Fanon's call to sort of be aware about violent conflict, how do you situate that warning today in terms of Gaza, Sudan, and all the other wars that we're experiencing?

I mean, that's really a good answer and not just his energies, but then also the markets had shifted.

So cocoa wasn't getting the kinds of prices it was getting.

And so, so many things had shifted.

So I didn't even think about this angle.

So thank you so much.

Finally, what are you working on?

Just to close this conversation, what's your new project or what projects are you working on next?

Fantastic.

I'm looking forward to your book, especially as you point out, it will be the first book I'm reading of yours that's turned inwards into America.

But thank you so much for your time.

New Books in Political Science · Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

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.

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