French...covers a lot of ground in a book that merges biography with panorama ... Ably treads the line on Nkrumah’s complicated legacy. French keeps reminding the reader of the larger context.
Not a complete biography. Instead, French’s portrait of Nkrumah acts as a hub for elucidating an intellectual history of Pan-Africanism ... Dazzling ... Blending his lucid, reportorial prose with his expertise in African, Black diasporic, and 20th-century political histories, French produces a dynamic, intricate sequence of documentary nonfiction.
