Howard W. French

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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

They're almost never taking into account the fact that Nkrumah,

should have been prime minister or president of Ghana from 1951.

And in fact, the result of this requirement that he keep winning elections without the granting of any power to him sapped the momentum of his movement.

That was the whole point.

And so by 1957, when he finally does gain independence, even though he

has this tremendous role as a torchlight for the rest of the African continent toward independence.

Nkrumah is, you could argue, actually has already had many of his energies depleted by that point, right?

So thank you, Ayesha.

First of all, I have to say to you, and I told you this was an okay question, and we didn't, by the way, we didn't rehearse any questions, but you asked me if we could talk about what I'm working on, and I said yes.

I'm superstitious, and so I don't really like to talk in depth about stuff that I'm working on until it's a real thing, meaning available and out there in the world.

But I will address your question in the following way.

So all of my books so far have been about the world outside of the United States.

And my present book is really about the United States and a particular aspect of the United States.

It involves the world of musical creativity, extraordinary world of musical creativity, black musical creativity of the mid-century, meaning the previous century, here in New York, and about the rise and destruction of the world that created the jazz of the mid-20th century.

I'm very excited about it.

I'm about three quarters of the way into the writing and I don't have a date yet, but hopefully in another, I don't know, a year and a half, maybe there'll be a new book for people to read.

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

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.

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