USA Africa Dialogue Series - Unscrambling Africa - New York Times

THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State. By Basil Davidson. 355 pp. New York: Times Books/Random House. $24.

SOMETHING has gone horribly wrong with Africa, and anyone who knows and loves the continent must have wondered what. Few know Africa better -- or have been thinking and writing about it longer -- than Basil Davidson. He is an Englishman, a journalist and an author (I am happy to say) rather than an academic, though he has been a visiting professor at a number of American colleges; he is also a man of the Old Left. Born in 1914, he served with distinction in World War II, ending as a lieutenant colonel with decorations from the British, American and Yugoslav Governments. He saw action as a liaison officer with Tito's partisans, and became something of a revolution groupie: his first book was "Partisan Picture" in 1946, followed by "Daybreak in China."

Old but interesting review. I remember Basil Davidson and his history books with much fondness... as a little boy. Come to think of it I love history and historians. Well not all historians!

Anyhow, read or ignore. Happy Sunday. I should go find a friend with a good bottle of red. Let's worship their gods! Bacchus!


http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/17/books/unscrambling-africa.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm


Ikhide

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