Basil Davidson

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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