Full Description
Basil Davidson is the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa and certainly the best trusted in Africa itself. - Roland Oliver in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Basil Davidson on the nation-state in Africa and its huge disappointments, its relationship to the colonial years and the parallels with events in Eastern Europe.
North America: Times/Random House
Contents
Africa without history; the road not taken; shadows of neglected ancestors; tribalism and the new nationalism; the rise of the nation-state; the challenge of nationalism; the black man's burden; pirates in power; the Euopean parallel.
