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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.

Selected bibliography

  • West Africa Before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850 (1998)
  • The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State (1992)
  • African Civilization Revisited: From Antiquity to Modern Times (1991)
  • The Fortunate Isles: A Study in African Transformation (1990)
  • Modern Africa: A Social and Political History (1989)
  • A History of West Africa, 1000-1800 (1977)
  • Can Africa Survive? Arguments Against Growth Without Development (1974)
  • Africa in History (1968)

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 not available in archive African History without Africans · 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