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...
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The holiday gift giving season is here. An idea: A Conversation with Mvemba Dizolele about my book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Inside “The Second Emancipation” with Howard French
Podcast Episode · The Africa Program · 12/03/2025 · 53m
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December 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The holiday gift giving season is here. An idea: A Conversation with Mvemba Dizolele about my book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Nigerian air force bombs positions of mutineers in neighboring Benin.
December 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Nigerian air force bombs positions of mutineers in neighboring Benin.
Reading. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reading. apnews.com/article/trum...
Amazing story here. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory
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December 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Amazing story here. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
The holiday gift giving season is here. An idea: A Conversation with Mvemba Dizolele about my book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Inside “The Second Emancipation” with Howard French
Podcast Episode · The Africa Program · 12/03/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The holiday gift giving season is here. An idea: A Conversation with Mvemba Dizolele about my book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/w...
The Newest V.I.P.s at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa? Afrikaners.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/w...
The great replacement theory goes global. Watch for this to be the central cause of JD's political career going forward. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
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December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The great replacement theory goes global. Watch for this to be the central cause of JD's political career going forward. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
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A conversation with Mvemba Dizolele about my book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah,Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. open.spotify.com/episode/4Sil...
December 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A conversation with Mvemba Dizolele about my book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah,Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. open.spotify.com/episode/4Sil...
It would be interesting to see the administration's lens for Europe applied to Russia, which it seems to esteem. Russia's decline in population and share of global GDP is far worse, and the war on Ukraine has worsened both.
US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.
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Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It would be interesting to see the administration's lens for Europe applied to Russia, which it seems to esteem. Russia's decline in population and share of global GDP is far worse, and the war on Ukraine has worsened both.
There's a little bit of self delusion involved here on the part of the Supreme Court. People with their eyes open cannot presume judicial good faith.
“First, the District Court failed to
honor the presumption of legislative good faith ….”
Yeah I’m gonna stop you right there
honor the presumption of legislative good faith ….”
Yeah I’m gonna stop you right there
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
There's a little bit of self delusion involved here on the part of the Supreme Court. People with their eyes open cannot presume judicial good faith.
Beware. Explosive ironies. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Beware. Explosive ironies. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
You knew it, right? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
You knew it, right? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The "money" in this piece is in the sub-headline: "For some fliers, the indignities of modern air travel don’t deserve their formalwear." www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...
Travelers wear pajamas to airports in protest of government request
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked travelers to skip the pajamas and slippers. Many said: Nah, we’re good.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The "money" in this piece is in the sub-headline: "For some fliers, the indignities of modern air travel don’t deserve their formalwear." www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...
When it came to present-day analogies much in the news recently, Tom seems to have had a brain freeze. (See below.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute
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December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
When it came to present-day analogies much in the news recently, Tom seems to have had a brain freeze. (See below.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
A conversation with Mvemba Dizolele about my book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah,Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. open.spotify.com/episode/4Sil...
December 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A conversation with Mvemba Dizolele about my book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah,Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. open.spotify.com/episode/4Sil...
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Trump’s foreign policy is bereft of the systematic approach of past U.S. presidents, but this is entirely by design, argues columnist @hofrench.bsky.social.
Trump’s Favorite Role? Foreign-Policy Czar.
In diplomacy, the U.S. president always seems to follow his own transactional view of human affairs.
foreignpolicy.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump’s foreign policy is bereft of the systematic approach of past U.S. presidents, but this is entirely by design, argues columnist @hofrench.bsky.social.
Long but good. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Long but good. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
I'll be in conversation with Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, Slow Poison, today at 4 at Columbia. Details below. Here's the first of two pieces I've written about the book. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/z...
The Making of Mamdani
A close reading of a new book by New York politician Zohran Mamdani’s father reveals a generational yearning for community and inclusion.
foreignpolicy.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I'll be in conversation with Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, Slow Poison, today at 4 at Columbia. Details below. Here's the first of two pieces I've written about the book. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/z...
Gut, ego, and lucre, that is. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/02/t...
Trump’s Favorite Role? Foreign-Policy Czar.
In diplomacy, the U.S. president always seems to follow his own transactional view of human affairs.
foreignpolicy.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Gut, ego, and lucre, that is. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/02/t...
A fine piece about a writer I've long admired, and particularly enjoyable after having watched Train Dreams last night. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/m...
The Dark Secrets of the Writer Behind ‘Train Dreams’
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December 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A fine piece about a writer I've long admired, and particularly enjoyable after having watched Train Dreams last night. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/m...
Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
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December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...