Lecture and Q&A: 7:00 - 8:00 PM

Book Signing: 8:00 - 8:30 PM

Howard W. French is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a former foreign correspondent and senior writer for The New York Times, having worked as a bureau chief in China, Japan, West and Central Africa, and Central America and the Caribbean.

During the talk, he will draw from his two most recent books, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War (2021), and The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. (2025)