00924nam a22001337a 450000500170000002000180001708200140003510000220004924500890007126000530016030000390021352005100025265000280076220260706124612.0  a9781324092452  a320.54FRE  aFrench, Howard W.  aThe Second Emancipation:bNkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide  aNew YorkbLiveright Publishing Corporationc2025  axviii, 512 p.bill., maps ; 25 cm.  aThe Second Emancipation, the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa’s pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild’s contention that French is a “modern-day Copernicus.” The title―referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom―positions this liberation at the center of a “movement of global Blackness,” with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), at its head.  aPan-Africanism-History.