"We have never figured out how to value Africa at its true worth."

Howard W. French is a Professor at Columbia Journalism School who spent the bulk of his reporting career as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times working in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He is the author of several books, including A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World and his new book and the subject of our discussion today, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.