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London Review of Books Christmas Books

African History without Africans

Basil Davidson

  • 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

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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.

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