TY - BOOK AU - French, Howard W. TI - The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide SN - 9781324092452 U1 - 320.54FRE PY - 2025/// CY - New York PB - Liveright Publishing Corporation KW - Pan-Africanism-History N2 - The 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 ER -