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Unearthing Africa's Role in Modernity
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Feb 3, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This is the first episode of the Into Africa podcast with new host Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, who joined the CSIS Africa Program as director and senior fellow in December 2021. Mvemba speaks with author Howard French about his newest book, Born in Blackness. They discuss French’s research process, the outsized role that São Tomé played in the modernity of the Western world, and how plantations—or, more accurately, prison labor camps—were the most important economic innovation of the modern age prior to the industrial revolution. French also describes the West’s centuries-long attempt to strip Africans of their identity, and how Africans and the diaspora are working together along identity lines to win back their rightful place.
Born in Blackness (W. W. Norton & Company)
Born in Blackness (W. W. Norton & Company)
Released:
Feb 3, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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