Howard W. French
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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These two people coming, being not from the same country or colony, but being in the same place at the same time and one influencing the other, right?
One of the ways these two men, elders of Nkrumah, influenced Nkrumah was...
to say, don't go to the UK to get education.
The British had expended almost no money or effort in educating people of the Gold Coast, which was, in fact, an extraordinarily lucrative colony for Britain.
The small, tiny, in fact, elite that the British did allow to be educated
had previously almost all gone to the UK for their education.
They're forming Black Britons or something like that, right?
And Agwe and Azikiwe had both been rare examples of elder Africans who had been to the United States to study.
And the point here is not to idealize the United States.
There's plenty to be unhappy about in terms of American history, right?
But they understood the importance of not being molded by Britain.
at a time when they could both foresee the coming battle for independence in Africa, that understanding yourself and ourselves as Africans outside of the mental, psychological bubble of the British world is going to be crucial for those who are going to lead us forward.
And so under their influence, Nkrumah goes to the United States, to a historically black university in Pennsylvania called Lincoln University,
And all sorts of things begin to happen, among which Nkrumah begins to understand, for the first time, I think, that there's this larger black world.
Of course, he would have known there's people of African descent in the United States.
You couldn't be even...
slightly educated and not know that, but no African really, in his era, really had much bigger thought about what that meant or who these people were or how they might relate to Africans or, for that matter, what they have in common, right?
And so Nkrumah goes to this historically black university, and this puts him on the path towards understanding global blackness, right?
This begins there, and this is the result of these influences.
Thank you.
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