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| basil davidson africa series summary: The Story of Africa Basil Davidson, 1984 |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Modern Africa Basil Davidson, 2014-07-10 Basil Davidson's famous book -- now updated in a welcome Third Edition -- reviews the social and political history of Africa in the twentieth century. It takes the reader from the colonial era through the liberation movements to independence and beyond. It faces squarely the disappointments and breakdowns that have dulled the early successes of the post-colonial era; yet, for all the sorrows and uncertainties of Africa today, Basil Davidson shows how much has been achieved since decolonization, and the mood of his new final chapter is hopeful and buoyant. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Africa Basil Davidson, 1972 |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Pan-Africanism Hakim Adi, 2018-08-23 The first survey of the Pan-African movement this century, this book provides a history of the individuals and organisations that have sought the unity of all those of African origin as the basis for advancement and liberation. Initially an idea and movement that took root among the African Diaspora, in more recent times Pan-Africanism has been embodied in the African Union, the organisation of African states which includes the entire African Diaspora as its 'sixth region'. Hakim Adi covers many of the key political figures of the 20th century, including Du Bois, Garvey, Malcolm X, Nkrumah and Gaddafi, as well as Pan-African culture expression from Négritude to the wearing of the Afro hair style and the music of Bob Marley. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The African Slave Trade Basil Davidson, 1980 Fifty million people between the 15th adn 19th centuries were forced into slavery by forced migration. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: African Civilization Revisited Basil Davidson, 1991 A classic book on African history as told in the chronicles and records of chiefs and kings, travellers and merchant-adventurers, poets and pirates and priests, soldiers and scholars. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: West Africa before the Colonial Era Basil Davidson, 2014-10-29 This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The Lost Cities of Africa Basil Davidson, 1959 |
| basil davidson africa series summary: In the Eye of the Storm Basil Davidson, 1973 |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The African Genius Basil Davidson, 1970 A general social and cultural history of Africa. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The Myth of Wild Africa Jonathan S. Adams, Thomas O. McShane, 1996 Africa's wildlife heritage is under siege--and its worst enemy may be traditional conservation methods. The authors tell of new conservation programs that include more Africans in the planning, execution, and financial benefits of this multi-billion dollar business. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The Fortunes of Wangrin ́ Amadou Hampat.̌ B, 1999 A novel on the evils of white colonialism in Africa. Set in French-ruled Mali, the hero is a young teacher who plays the white man's idea of a good Black in order to advance his career. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Scenes From Anti-Nazi War Basil Davidson, 1981 In this lively and instructive memoir of his experience with the anti-Nazi underground in Italy and Yugoslavia during World War II, Basil Davidson throws needed light on a much-neglected part of European history. Sent to the area as a representative of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), he is able to recount at first hand the intense determination of the revolutionary partisans, who hoped that their sacrifices would lead to a new society, and the equally determined policy of the Allies to suppress them. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The Story of an African Working Class Jeff Crisp, 2017-02-15 This seminal work tells the story of Ghana's gold miners, one of the oldest and most militant groups of workers in Africa. It is a story of struggle against exploitative mining companies, repressive governments and authoritarian trade union leaders. Drawing on a wide range of original sources, including previously secret government and company records, Jeff Crisp explores the changing nature of life and work in the gold mines, from the colonial era into the 1980s, and examines the distinctive forms of political consciousness and organization which the miners developed. The study also provides a detailed account of the changing techniques of labour control employed by mining capital and the state, and shows how they failed to curb the workers' solidarity and tradition of militant resistance. Combining lively historical narrative with original analysis, this book remains a unique contribution to the history of Africa and its working class. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Black Mother Basil Davidson, 1965 |
| basil davidson africa series summary: History of Africa Kevin Shillington, 2018-08-28 This fourth edition of this best-selling core history textbook offers a richly illustrated, single volume, narrative introduction to African history, from a hugely respected authority in the field. The market-leading range of illustrated material from prior editions is now further improved, featuring not only additional and redrawn maps and a refreshed selection of photographs, but the addition of full colour to make these even more instructive, evocative and attractive. Already hugely popular on introductory African History courses, the book has been widely praised for its engaging and readable style, and is unrivalled in scope, both geographically and chronologically – while many competitors limit themselves to certain regions or eras, Shillington chronicles the entire continent, from prehistory right up to the present day. For this new edition, both content and layout have been thoroughly refreshed and restructured to make this wealth of material easily navigable, and even more appealing to students unfamiliar with the subject. New to this Edition: - Now in full colour with fresh new design - Part structure and part intros added to help navigation - New and improved online resources include a new testbank, interactive timelines, lecturer slides, debates In African history, essay questions and further readings - Revised and updated in light of recent research |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The Politics of Heritage in Africa Derek R. Peterson, Kodzo Gavua, Ciraj Rassool, 2015-03-02 This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce Robin Law, 2002-08-08 This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The Black Man’s Burden E. D. Morel, 1969 Chronological narrative of the terrible consequences to black africans when white explorers came Africa to colonize and plunder. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Let Freedom Come Basil Davidson, 1978-01-01 A book that could not be written until now because of limitations imposed by Britain's Official Secrets Act, Let Freedom Come presents the history of sub-Saharan Africa in this century, from the death throes of European imperialism to the birth pangs and often bloody adolescences of the newly independent African nations. The author draws upon his unexcelled command of modern African history, society, and culture, at the same time reemphasizing that Africa had evolved her own cities, civilizations, indeed empires, as great as any in Western Europe before the first Europeans ever ventured onto the continent. Writing from the belief that the new history of Africa flows organically out of the old, Davidson envisions a purely African revolution in the near future, from whose outcome will emerge a new African consciousness and wholly new institutions rooted in African history. - Back cover. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky Basil Davidson, 2017-02-15 No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Though perhaps less well known than the struggles in Angola and Mozambique, the liberation war waged by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) easily ranks alongside those conflicts as an example of an African independence movement triumphing against overwhelming odds. Basil Davidson, a leading authority on Portuguese Africa who witnessed many of these events first hand, draws on his own extensive experience in the country as well as the PAIGC archives to provide a detailed and rigorous analysis of the conflict. The book also provides one of the earliest accounts of the assassination of the PAIGC’s founder, Amilcar Cabral, and documents the movement’s remarkable success in recovering from the death of its leader and in eventually attaining independence. Featuring a preface by Cape Verde’s first president, Aristides Pereira, and a foreword by Cabral himself, No Fist is Big Enough to Hide the Sky remains an invaluable resource for the study both of the region and of African liberation struggles as a whole. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: African Kingdoms (great Ages of Man). Basil Davidson, 1990 |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The Anticolonial Front John Munro, 2017-09-21 This book connects the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Establishing Exceptionalism Amy Turner Bushnell, 2022-02-16 Since the 1950s historians of the colonial era in North, South and Central America have extended the frontiers of basic general knowledge enormously; this rich historiographical tradition has generated robust methodological discussions about how to study the European encounter in the light of the experience of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. By bringing together major research reviews by a series of leading scholars, this volume makes it possible to compare directly approaches relating to colonial North America, Brazil, the Spanish borderlands, and the Caribbean. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Black Star Basil Davidson, 2019-04-10 This book provides a balanced view about a charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah during an exciting period of history in Ghana. It discusses the failure of Nkrumah's means and abilities to meet the challenge of his aims from the standpoint of Ghana's welfare. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Africa and the New Globalization Dr George Klay Kieh Jr, 2013-03-28 Globalization is not a new phenomenon in the international system. However, the various phases of globalization have had divergent scopes, actors, dimensions and dynamics – that is, each of the phases of globalization can be differentiated according to these terms. Against this background, this book focuses on the 'new globalization', a phase that emerged when the Cold War ended and which is, significantly, the most expansive and technologically advanced of all the phases of globalization. The contributors identify and discuss many of the frontier issues in Africa that are being impacted by the dynamics of this new globalization – debt, human rights, development, state sovereignty, the environment, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The volume will hold particular interest for students, scholars and researchers of African and development politics. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: African Freedom Phyllis Taoua, 2018-07-26 A comprehensive synthesis of the ideal of freedom in African culture from a pan-African perspective after independence. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Africans John Iliffe, 2017-07-13 In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the last century their inherited culture has interacted with medical progress to produce the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This new edition incorporates genetic and linguistic findings, throwing light on early African history and summarises research that has transformed the study of the Atlantic slave trade. It also examines the consequences of a rapidly growing youthful population, the hopeful but uncertain democratisation and economic recovery of the early twenty-first century, the containment of the AIDS epidemic and the turmoil within Islam that has produced the Arab Spring. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding modern men and women to their earliest human ancestors. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Great Zimbabwe Peter S. Garlake, 1985 |
| basil davidson africa series summary: History of West Africa Jacob Festus A. de Ajayi, Michael Crowder, 1994 |
| basil davidson africa series summary: The Rough Guide to West Africa Rough Guides, 2008-06-02 The Rough Guide to West Africa in epub format is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to one of the world's hardest - and most rewarding - regions for travel, covering the 15 visitable countries from Mauritania to Cameroon in fifty percent more detail than its only competitor. Each chapter of the Rough Guide includes thoroughly researched hotel and restaurant listings, sections on everything from food and language to media and sport, and thoughtful background on the environment, culture, history, politics and music. The introduction highlights the region's attractions and touches on its great range of cultural and scenic impressions. Sections on Arts and Crafts and Fruit and Food Plants offer fascinating information and useful advice. More than 160 accessible and accurate maps guide you from the urban jungle to beaches and mountains. And an extensive index references every place mentioned in the guide. Visit the author blog at http://theroughguidetowestafrica.blogspot.com for news, links and updates. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to West Africa |
| basil davidson africa series summary: A History of Africa Hosea Jaffe, 2017-02-15 Spanning more than two thousand years of African history, from the African Iron Age to the collapse of colonialism and the beginnings of independence, Hosea Jaffe's magisterial work remains one of the few to do full justice to the continent's complex and diverse past. The great strength of Jaffe's work lies in its unique theoretical perspective, which stresses the distinctive character of Africa's social structures and historical development. Crucially, Jaffe rejects all efforts to impose Eurocentric models of history onto Africa, whether it be liberal notions of 'progress' or Marxist theories of class struggle, arguing instead that the key dynamics underpinning African history are unique to the continent itself, and rooted in conflicts between different modes of production. The work also includes a foreword by the distinguished economist and political theorist Samir Amin, in which he outlines the contribution of Jaffe’s work to our understanding of African history and its ongoing post-colonial struggles. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Creating Black Americans Nell Irvin Painter, 2006 Traces the history of the Black experience in America, exploring how African-Americans have been impacted by various social, economic, political, and cultural events; features artwork by prominent African-American artists. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Sex and Race, Volume 1 J. A. Rogers, 2014-09-15 In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the color problem. Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic differences are the result of sociological factors and in these volumes he gathered what he called the bran of history—the uncollected, unexamined history of black people—in the hope that these neglected parts of history would become part of the mainstream body of Western history. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions. Indeed his belief in one race—humanity—precluded the idea of several different ethnic races. The series marshals the data he had collected as evidence to prove his underlying humanistic thesis: that people were one large family without racial boundaries. Self-trained and self-published, Rogers and his work were immensely popular and influential during his day, even cited by Malcolm X. The books are presented here in their original editions. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: An Economic History of West Africa A. G. Hopkins, 2014-09-19 This is the standard account of the economic history of the vast area conventionally known as West Africa. Ranging from prehistoric time to independence it covers the former French as well as British colonies. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Africa in the Iron Age Roland Anthony Oliver, Brian M. Fagan, 1975-10-29 A textbook providing the only comprehensive and up-to-date account of African history between 500 B.C. and 1400 A.D. Also useful to students of archaeology. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Black Theology—Essays on Global Perspectives Dwight N. Hopkins, 2017-06-15 Since its start in 1966, black liberation theology in the United States has continually engaged international developments with Africa and the entire world. But after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, there has been an almost twenty-year break in books on black theology and international affairs. Black Theology--Essays on Global Perspectives bridges that post-1990 gap and makes a vital contact with Africa again. This book conceptualizes black theology to take on the global reconfigurations and opportunities brought about by the rapidly shrinking earth of fast-paced, worldwide contacts. In other words, in the specificity of the genealogy of black theology, we need to reforge ties with Africa. This claim is based on tradition. And in the generality of the larger worldwide intertwining of technologies and economics, we need a new type of black theological leadership for the twenty-first century. This claim is based on today's international challenges. The essays in this book draw on tradition and point forward in the midst of today's worldwide challenges and favorable possibilities, given the closeness of all nations and the varieties of cultures. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: ThirdWay , 1984-07 Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Clausewitz and African War Isabelle Duyvesteyn, 2004-09-30 Oil, diamonds, timber, food aid - just some of the suggestions put forward as explanations for African wars in the past decade. Another set of suggestions focuses on ethnic and clan considerations. These economic and ethnic or clan explanations contend that wars are specifically not fought by states for political interests with mainly conventional military means, as originally suggested by Carl von Clausewitz in the 19th century. This study shows how alternative social organizations to the state can be viewed as political actors using war as a political instrument. |
| basil davidson africa series summary: Cimboa , 1996 Revista caboverdiana de letras, artes e estudos = a journal of letters, arts and studies. |
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