Howard W. French
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832 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Howard W. French’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you, Ayesha.
It's good to see you again.
Most of this is accident.
I was born in an African-American family in Washington, D.C.
a long time ago.
You know, my parents were professionals.
My mother was an early childhood education specialist.
My father was a medical doctor.
So as to make this is somewhat compact.
answer.
My father, his specialty was surgery.
Mid or late mid-career, he decided he wanted to serve more people and got into public health.
And so this led eventually on a twisted path to moving the family to West Africa.
My father moved
with my younger siblings to Ivory Coast when I was just entering college in the United States.
And so I first began to experience Africa visiting home, visiting my parents living in Ivory Coast as a college student.
And it kind of grabbed me in a very totalizing way.
I was very unfamiliar with
as almost any American of that era would have been, with Africa, with the African landscape, with African realities.
I was a political science student and an English major both, and I had read a lot about Africa in college, but that's very different from experiencing Africa.
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