Episode 138
African and African American Politics and Popular Culture in the 20th Century
Dr. Benjamin Talton (Director, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University) on his eclectic intellectual journey as an historian of Africa and the Diaspora. The interview begins with a discussion of his early work on ethnicity and politics in northern Ghana and then turns to his award-winning book, In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics. In the final portion of the interview, Dr. Talton discusses his forthcoming book on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s engagement with African liberation politics.
Introduction
Becoming a scholar and historian
Dr. Talton’s first book on northern Ghana
On Talton’s political biography of Mickey Leland
Martin Luther King Jr. and African Liberation
Wrap up and Outro
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