Howard W. French

Howard W. French is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the author, most recently, of The Second Emancipation: Nkru­mah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

British colonials

The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation

Caroline Elkins’s new history of the British Empire is a damning account of its violent crimes against its subjects. 

May 16, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French

A Vigorous, Quiet Revolt: Things Fall Apart At Fifty A Vigorous, Quiet Revolt: Things Fall Apart At Fifty

Published fifty years ago, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart mounted a literary rebellion against the everyday amalgamations and condescension that treat Africa as an undiffere...

May 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French

A Powerful Counterhistory of China A Powerful Counterhistory of China

A collection of oral histories reveal a new understanding of the modern Chinese experience.

Jul 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French

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