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	Podcast:		Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)
	Episode:		He championed a radical dream — a 'United States of Africa'
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:08
	Publish Date:		2026-05-15 16:10:00
	Description:		Africa is a centre of world history — a fact that's been deliberately obscured, says journalist Howard W. French. In this talk based on his book, The Second Emancipation, he explores the surprisingly early seeds of 20th century Pan-African thought, and how Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana went from reluctant student to influential leader of a free Ghana. Howard W. French delivered the Black History Month lecture at University of Toronto's New College. French was is a former New York Times bureau chief based in Shanghai. He now teaches journalism at Columbia University and is also the author of Born in Blackness.
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