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Author: The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. Starred review PW: www.publishersweekly.com/9781324092452
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Trump’s Biggest Challenge to American Democracy

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By Howard French
| Foreign Policy Magazine Verified
With the U.S. midterm elections less than 100 days away, the focus of much of the country’s politics will turn to questions such as how quickly Donald Trump, like most two-term U.S. presidents before him, will be transformed into a lame duck, and what the results could mean for gaming out who will succeed him in two years. As compelling as questions like these are, there are other matters, equally or even more weighty, that will shape the country’s future and its place in the world.
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Carnegie’s Summer Beach Reads

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By Howard French, Peter Baker, Susan Glasser Verified
| Carnegie Endowment
Blog Emissary harnesses Carnegie’s global scholarship to deliver incisive, nuanced analysis on the most pressing international affairs challenges. Born in Blacknessby Howard W. French The interwebs say that when reading to newborns, the sound of a parent’s voice is more important than the content of the material itself—so I took that literally during the summer of 2022, when Kid 2 and I devoured Born in Blackness.
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How South Africa’s Myopia Is Harming the Entire Continent

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By Howard French
| Foreign Policy Magazine Verified
In the eyes of Western journalists, the fortunes of Africa always seem to vacillate between gloom and doom and rebirth and takeoff, with the pessimistic view weighing much heavier in the balance. As a reporter, I have always resisted giving into the temptation to frame Africa in either of these ways. After all, it is the world’s second-largest continent, one of great complexity, and that includes plenty of scope for divergent fates.
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