Howard French on Writing & Preserving History (Part 4)
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I'm Karen Hunter, and now we are headed to the home stretch |
| 0:15.8 | with Howard French. Now, born in blackness, please get that book. Please get it, read it, listen to it. It's important because it's |
| 0:24.3 | book one in a trilogy. Book two is the second emancipation, which we've been talking about for the last |
| 0:30.1 | couple of podcasts. And in this podcast, we're actually talking about the book he hasn't written yet |
| 0:36.4 | and the process for even getting to this |
| 0:38.7 | point and how it all comes together because there's a story arc here and I think it's important |
| 0:43.5 | that we put the pieces in place so that we can see the whole entirety of where we've been |
| 0:49.8 | and how we get to where we're going. So up next, part four of a conversation with Howard W. French, the new book, |
| 0:59.0 | The Second Emancipation. |
| 1:01.0 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:01.9 | Howard French, the book, y'all got to read it to get all that you need to get from |
| 1:07.3 | this story that starts in born in blackness, starts in Mali and is taking us all the way |
| 1:12.9 | through the second emancipation, Enkrumah, Pan-Africanism, Global Blackness at High Tide. |
| 1:18.5 | What's the third? What's the third in the trilogy? |
| 1:21.3 | The third in the trilogy is bringing us up to the present. So the second emancipation |
| 1:27.0 | finishes, ends with Enkrumas death. So Encrumah dies in |
| 1:31.8 | 1972 in exile and Bucharest Romania from cancer, as you said. And at the very end of the book, |
| 1:40.1 | and this brings us to the topic of Chari, who you asked about. |
| 1:49.8 | Chauray is a West African leader in one of the Sahelian states who are kind of trying to create a new political dispensation free of France and free of the Western War on Terror. |
| 1:56.3 | Right. |
| 1:56.5 | The second emancipation ends with a discussion in the conclusion of the book of a man named Thomas Sankara, who was a leader of Burkina Faso, one of these Sahelian states, a young revolutionary guy who I knew personally, who had begun to defy France and to redefine African independence in a very progressive way in that era, and who was |
| 2:18.5 | overthrown in a plot that was supported by France. And so the new book, which I haven't begun yet, |
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