Howard French
@hofrench.bsky.social
Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
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Howard French
@hofrench.bsky.social
· Oct 25
Best Books 2025: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly
Best Books 2025, Best Nonfiction Books, Philippe Sands, Greg Grandin, Andrea Long Chu, Lana Lin, Nicholas Boggs, Sarah Chihaya, Caleb Gayle, Michael Thomas, Peter Guralnick, Sim Kern, Jacob Silverman,...
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🙂 The Second Emancipation listed as one of the 20 best non-fiction books of 2025 by Publishers Weekly. best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
Forward never. Backwards ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...
Ford Will Take $19.5 Billion Hit as It Rolls Back E.V. Plans
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Forward never. Backwards ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...
How vile can it get? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Trump Seizes on Rob Reiner’s Death to Attack the Hollywood Director
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December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
How vile can it get? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Reading. www.ft.com/content/0aec... Hong Kong convicts Jimmy Lai in landmark national security trial
Hong Kong convicts Jimmy Lai in landmark national security trial
Billionaire media boss found guilty on charges of conspiring to commit sedition and foreign collusion
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Reading. www.ft.com/content/0aec... Hong Kong convicts Jimmy Lai in landmark national security trial
The horror.
Hundreds had gathered for an event at Bondi Beach called Chanukah by the Sea, which was celebrating the start of the Hanukkah Jewish festival. n.pr/4afN0RN
At least 15 killed in mass shooting at Hanukkah event on Sydney's Bondi Beach
Hundreds had gathered for an event at Bondi Beach called Chanukah by the Sea, which was celebrating the start of the Hanukkah Jewish festival.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The horror.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Reposted by Howard French
Brendan Embser, Tracing Africa’s Photographic History in Books (Aperture; #skystorians): aperture.org/editorial/tr...
Tracing Africa’s Photographic History in Books
The curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo speaks about the MoMA exhibition "Ideas of Africa" and the role of photobooks in shaping artistic knowledge.
aperture.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Brendan Embser, Tracing Africa’s Photographic History in Books (Aperture; #skystorians): aperture.org/editorial/tr...
By the way, I met and profiled a Chinese man who was doing this in Mozambique a decade ago in my book, China's Second Continent. Trying to build a local dynasty with multiple wives and mothers, both Chinese and African.
Inspired by Elon Musk... www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
By the way, I met and profiled a Chinese man who was doing this in Mozambique a decade ago in my book, China's Second Continent. Trying to build a local dynasty with multiple wives and mothers, both Chinese and African.
December 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Inspired by Elon Musk... www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Inspired by Elon Musk... www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
Fascinating work. ctc.westpoint.edu/kachallas-an...
Kachallas and Kinship: Understanding Jihadi Expansion and Diffusion in Nigeria - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
Abstract: The multiplication and diffusion of jihadi networks within Nigeria is an important component of the broader spread of jihadi violence from the Sahel into coastal West Africa, a trend that ha...
ctc.westpoint.edu
December 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Fascinating work. ctc.westpoint.edu/kachallas-an...
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That also means.... I got to pick my top 5 African reads of the year 👏🏾
Books from Goretti Kyomuhendo, @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, and Oyinkan Braithwaite are on the list!
Books from Goretti Kyomuhendo, @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, and Oyinkan Braithwaite are on the list!
December 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Reposted by Howard French
That also means.... I got to pick my top 5 African reads of the year 👏🏾
Books from Goretti Kyomuhendo, @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, and Oyinkan Braithwaite are on the list!
Books from Goretti Kyomuhendo, @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, and Oyinkan Braithwaite are on the list!
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
That also means.... I got to pick my top 5 African reads of the year 👏🏾
Books from Goretti Kyomuhendo, @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, and Oyinkan Braithwaite are on the list!
Books from Goretti Kyomuhendo, @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, and Oyinkan Braithwaite are on the list!
The memories. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
The Artists Reviving the Legacy of Air Afrique
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December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The memories. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
Meanwhile. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Meanwhile. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...
www.ft.com/content/c6d7... Inside the failed green revolutions at BP and Shell, which scalded back their efforts at the first opportunity and wrote off the expenses.
Inside the failed green revolutions at BP and Shell
How the energy giants tried to transform their businesses — but ended up dramatically scaling back those plans and writing off billions of dollars
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December 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
www.ft.com/content/c6d7... Inside the failed green revolutions at BP and Shell, which scalded back their efforts at the first opportunity and wrote off the expenses.
The Continent magazine names my The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, one of its books of the year. It's a chewy treat for gift season.
December 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The Continent magazine names my The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, one of its books of the year. It's a chewy treat for gift season.
Reading. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Exclusive | U.S. Forces Raid Ship, Seize Cargo Headed to Iran From China
A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, an operation at sea aimed at blocking ...
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Reading. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
www.ft.com/content/a286... Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré: ‘My life is serendipity’
Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré: ‘My life is serendipity’
The Pritzker-winner on building ‘from the earth’, why modern architecture is going too fast — and how it all began with wobbly school benches
www.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
www.ft.com/content/a286... Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré: ‘My life is serendipity’
Reading.
‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
Research shows that the British colonial wealth extraction system still influences the region’s tourist industry
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reading.
Farewell to all that. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/11/t...
Trump’s National Security Strategy Is a Blueprint for the Demise of the West
The White House’s agenda may not be coherent, but it is deeply dangerous.
foreignpolicy.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Farewell to all that. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/11/t...
The grotesque. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Not Attacking Europe. He’s Attacking Something Else.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The grotesque. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/o...