Howard W. French

Howard W. French is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the author, most recently, of The Second Emancipation: Nkru­mah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

Idi Amin in Kampala, 1975.

Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda

In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.

Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French

British colonials

The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation

Caroline Elkins’s new history of the British Empire is a damning account of its violent crimes against its subjects. 

May 16, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French

A Vigorous, Quiet Revolt: Things Fall Apart At Fifty A Vigorous, Quiet Revolt: Things Fall Apart At Fifty

Published fifty years ago, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart mounted a literary rebellion against the everyday amalgamations and condescension that treat Africa as an undiffere...

May 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French

A Powerful Counterhistory of China A Powerful Counterhistory of China

A collection of oral histories reveal a new understanding of the modern Chinese experience.

Jul 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French

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