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James Baldwin’s African Awakening
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
24 Mar 2020
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Although famed writers James Baldwin never wrote a book entirely about Africa in his long career, his later works show him awakening to “the potential of Black internationalism” with the decolonization of the continent, according to  Dagmawi Woubshet, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. “The early Baldwin is concerned about the kinship between white and Black America,” said Woubshet, 

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