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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social

A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

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jun 25, 2025, 12:23 pm • 1,592 219

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John Kelsey @jjkdes.bsky.social

Mozal tov!

jun 26, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social

Available for pre-order here: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

jun 25, 2025, 12:23 pm • 31 7 • view
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Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social

You probably already have seen that Mamdani's middle name seems to have been after Nkrumah?

jun 25, 2025, 12:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social

Looks terrific

jun 25, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social

mazel tov! Put it under your pillow and dream of your amazing reviews

jun 25, 2025, 2:46 pm • 5 1 • view
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jacob (Kenya. Next : Rwanda) @talking-sparrow.bsky.social

I would love to read this but I am in Cameroon and you can't really order books here :(

jun 25, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
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Drex @drexasaur.bsky.social

Available at B&N? Def want to pick this up just need to know where.

aug 29, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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CSwiftSkyWrite @bluecswift.bsky.social

📌

jun 25, 2025, 6:27 pm • 3 0 • view
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Umbrarchist @umbrarchist.bsky.social

The North Africa Trilogy 60 yrs old. Patrice Lumumba '61 sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/20... Black Man's Burden (1961) & gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds gutenberg.org/ebooks/30639 When Africa Awakes (1920) by Hubert Harrison gutenberg.org/ebooks/69712

jun 25, 2025, 8:32 pm • 5 0 • view
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Xylophile @islaven.bsky.social

Congrats! That is a nice benchmark after all the hard work.

jun 25, 2025, 8:21 pm • 3 0 • view
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amarriott.bsky.social @amarriott.bsky.social

Congrats!

jun 26, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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mommom-dayton.bsky.social @mommom-dayton.bsky.social

That looks interesting. I see it's available for pre-order at bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Definitely getting added to my wish list. Very few of us know anything about Nkrumah if we've even heard his name.

jun 26, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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mushamukad.bsky.social @mushamukad.bsky.social

Congratulations! Will you be doing a Nairobi reading?

jun 25, 2025, 1:47 pm • 2 0 • view
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jacob (Kenya. Next : Rwanda) @talking-sparrow.bsky.social

What does one do career-wise in Kenya? I will be there in ~2 months with a vague hope of finding my community

jun 25, 2025, 6:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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mushamukad.bsky.social @mushamukad.bsky.social

A lot of highly educated Kenyans are looking for jobs. In general I would discourage job seekers from coming here.

jun 26, 2025, 9:11 am • 0 0 • view
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NanLeah @poetryofnature.bsky.social

Congratulations. 🎉 🙏

jun 26, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nate @natusm.bsky.social

On the list!

jun 26, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Fourmoyle 🇯🇲 @fourmoyle.bsky.social

📌

jun 26, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
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Esmeralda P @amerika6205.bsky.social

Bravo. Well done.

jun 26, 2025, 7:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Sonny @sonnygalleani.bsky.social

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aug 30, 2025, 11:33 am • 0 0 • view
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Monkssnap @monkssnap.bsky.social

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jun 26, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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James SaintFrancis @jamessaintfrancis.bsky.social

I very much look forward to not reading it.

jun 25, 2025, 6:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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BodhiCreole @kshahyd.bsky.social

I saw you at P&P last week and only after leaving realized I had a question. Prior to Nkrumah's work to organize the Pan-African conferences, the work had been led by those in the diaspora for whom Pan-Africanism was an idea. When Africans began to be more involved and assumed leadership

aug 31, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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BodhiCreole @kshahyd.bsky.social

The movement transitioned from idea to focused on the very real political geography of the African continent, and the political project of the diaspora became more secondary. With judging between the value of the different perspectives, how do you think that shapes were we are today?

aug 31, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Trixxx @here4thedoodz.bsky.social

fiction is really popular these days

jun 26, 2025, 6:05 am • 0 0 • view
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Robert Weston @hemissroad.bsky.social

Compliments

jun 25, 2025, 12:40 pm • 3 0 • view
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Rust Belt Empress @rustbeltempress.bsky.social

Looking forward to reading this.

jun 26, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social

Gorgeous! I can't wait to read it. I am teaching "Born in Blackness" in the fall!

jun 26, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 1 • view
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Frank Chalmers @fffoblomov.bsky.social

Welcome!

jun 26, 2025, 7:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

jun 26, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com

Howard I have so much love and respect for your work! Can't wait to read, and congratulations!

jun 25, 2025, 4:05 pm • 5 0 • view
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John (Johnny) Cropper @1thewanderer.bsky.social

Is this actually a book worth reading or just another woke shit boilerplate waste of trees? Serious question

jun 26, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Anabela T @anabelat.bsky.social

Congrats!

jun 26, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
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jun 26, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Elijah Davis @maybeatheist.com

Wow! Very excited to dive into this!

jun 25, 2025, 1:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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Emmanuel Balogun @eabalogun.bsky.social

Congrats, Howard! Can't wait to get my hands on it!

jun 25, 2025, 1:04 pm • 3 0 • view
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MJ Slenderman @greekmormon.bsky.social

wow, already emailed my library to request this!

jun 25, 2025, 1:10 pm • 4 1 • view
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Charles Erick @ewmpsi.bsky.social

On my list for purchase!

jun 26, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mary, Mother of Jesus @ismisa.bsky.social

Congratulations.

jun 26, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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partwave∴ @partickle.bsky.social

👀

jun 25, 2025, 1:16 pm • 2 0 • view
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Kane Lawless 420 @kanelawless420.bsky.social

"I bless the rains down in Afrika!" -Toto

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jun 26, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 1 • view
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usaisnumber1.bsky.social @usaisnumber1.bsky.social

Haha only clowns say it was aliens. But I wonder why you show the picture you show while talking about Africa. Not 1 of those things you show is of Africa. If you are going to say Egypt I am sorry my friend. Egypt is not African and has been part of the Mediterranean culture for thousands of years

jun 26, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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deGriotPoet @phaze2600.blacksky.app

What continent is Egypt on? What is the ancient name of Egypt? Why am I even replying to this nonsense 😂

jun 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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usaisnumber1.bsky.social @usaisnumber1.bsky.social

furtherafrica.com/2022/05/22/i... Egypt is a transcontinental country. Being in both the African and Asian Plates. Mostly African plate Egypt resides in. But going back in its history it was part of the Mediterranean trade system & had no dealings with actual Africa.

jun 26, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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usaisnumber1.bsky.social @usaisnumber1.bsky.social

Today Egypt is considered part of the Middle East with its Arab identity

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deGriotPoet @phaze2600.blacksky.app

transcontinental you say? who created these borders? these geographical distinctions? The science is there, the original people of Kemet were from Sub-Saharan Africa. The skeleton found in upper Egypt Nazlet Khater from the late Paleolithic Age, 30,000 BCE proof pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10964529/

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Kane Lawless 420 @kanelawless420.bsky.social

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deGriotPoet @phaze2600.blacksky.app

😂

jun 26, 2025, 7:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kane Lawless 420 @kanelawless420.bsky.social

Moors from North Afrika...

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jun 26, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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usaisnumber1.bsky.social @usaisnumber1.bsky.social

Also as you can see below, soap was used by some but mostly for laundry and it her things. Soap was really popular for bathing after the 200’s ad. That’s well before the Moors 711ad. Over 500 years before the moors. That’s 2x longer than the USA has been a country, just for context.

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Kane Lawless 420 @kanelawless420.bsky.social

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usaisnumber1.bsky.social @usaisnumber1.bsky.social

Haha ur funny. Europe including all the way to Britain was part of the Roman Empire & even Greece (Southeastern Europe) used soap going back thousands of years. Way b4 the moors were even a thought. Next time do some research b4 blabbing. It’s true some Romans would use olive oil & scrape it off

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Kane Lawless 420 @kanelawless420.bsky.social

(SMIRKS at @usaisnumber1.bsky.social)

jun 26, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Amy ‘The Constitution Matters’ Sommers 李雅美 @amysommers.bsky.social

Congrats!

jun 25, 2025, 8:46 pm • 1 0 • view