Basil Davidson

Basil Davidson is an honorary fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the author of West Africa before the Colonial Era.

In the LRB Archive:

• African History without Africans: Portugal’s Empire · 18 February 1999

  • The Lusiads by Luí Vaz de Camões, translated by Landeg White
  • Counterinsurgency in Africa: The Portuguese Way of War, 1961-1974 by John Cann
  • The Decolonisation of Portuguese Africa by Norrie MacQueen
  • African Guerrillas edited by Christopher Clapham

• The Cruel Hoax of Development · 6 March 1997

  • Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone by Paul Richards
  • A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal 1720-1994 by Adrain Adams and Jaabe So

• Goodbye to Some of That · 22 August 1996

• Misunderstanding Yugoslavia · 23 May 1996

  • Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War by Susan Woodward

• With Gods on Their Side · 7 September 1995

  • The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 by Adrian Hastings
  • A History of Christianity in Africa from Antiquity to the Present by Elizabeth Isichei
  • Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression edited by Thomas Blakely, Walter van Beek and Dennis Thomson

• On Rwanda · 18 August 1994

• The Motives of Mau Mau · 24 February 1994

  • Unhappy Valley by Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale
  • Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt by Wunyabari Maloba

• Bloody-Minded · 9 September 1993

  • High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighbourhood by Chester Crocker
  • Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa’s Disputed Nations by Jeremy Harding
  • Bridging the Zambesi: A Colonial Folly by Landeg White

• Lutfi’s bar will not be opening again · 7 January 1993

  • Fitzroy Maclean by Frank McLynn
  • Franz Joseph by Jean-Paul Bled, translated by Teresa Bridgeman

• Torday’s Scorpion · 9 April 1992

  • The African Experience by Roland Oliver
  • A Thousand Years of East Africa by John Sutton
  • When the grass is gone edited by P.W.T. Baxter
  • The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham

• Dying Africa · 11 July 1991

• Bad Habits · 27 June 1991

  • The Repatriations from Austria: The Report of an Inquiry by Anthony Cowgill, Lord Brimelow and Christopher Booker
  • Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945 by Samuel Newland
  • Eyewitnesses at Nuremberg by Hilary Gaskin

• Righteous Turpitudes · 27 September 1990

  • British Intelligence in the Second World War, Vol. V: Strategic Deception by Michael Howard

• On the Stambul Train · 28 June 1990

  • Struggle for the Balkans by Svetozar Vukmanovic, translated by Charles Bartlett

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