Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City.
"[A] magnificent, powerful and absorbing book... This is not a
comfortable or comforting read, but it is beautifully done; a
masterpiece even..."
*Peter Frankopan - The Observer*
"Born in Blackness is laced with arresting nuggets... Filled with
pain, but also with pride: pride at the endurance of oppressed
millions, at the many slave uprisings and rebellions culminating in
the Haitian revolution, which defeated ‘the idea of Black slavery
itself,’ and in the cultural riches of the African diaspora...
Searing, humbling and essential reading."
*Nigel Cliff - New York Times Book Review*
"This book is filled with countless eyeopeners… All history is, by
definition, revisionist. In connecting the various dots, French is
inviting us to reconsider what we understand about how we got
here.... Painful and necessary… [an] infuriating and hugely
enlightening book."
*Dele Olojede - Financial Times*
"French writes not only to correct the historical record but to
urge readers to understand how their world has been made by
Africa’s contributions. Born in Blackness is therefore an entry
into a larger debate about how to reckon with the past...For
French, transforming the way we perceive ourselves as citizens of
the most powerful country in the world, and transforming how
we understand the part Africans played in building it, are
necessary steps toward justice and quality."
*Adom Getachew - The New York Review of Books*
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