In her review of Howard W. French’s The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, ALIWA Class VI Fellow, Ayisha Osori (Karfi Kuo) traces how the bold pan-African vision of Kwame Nkrumah, a unified, politically sovereign Africa acting as a single force in the world, was narrowed, betrayed, and ultimately left incomplete.
Drawing on her own encounters with the fractures between Africans and the diaspora, Ayisha uses French’s sweeping history to interrogate questions that remain urgent for Africa today.
Her review is a candid, grounding conversation about what it really takes to lead with impact, and also raises a deeper leadership question: what would it take to move from rhetoric to renewed, collective action across borders, sectors, and generations? As Africa navigates an increasingly complex global order, the piece invites us to reconsider our role in shaping a more connected, intentional future; one that builds on solidarity, not just history.
Read the full review here.