This book, revised and enlarged from its first edition, is primarily for students preparing for a variety of intermediate and senior level examinations in which a knowledge of the history of modern Africa is required. Designed for use with detailed national histories, it presents these histories within the framework of an all-African overview of ...
Prior to the original publication of "Africa in History", the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization", applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work presents the inner growth of Africa and its worldwide significance, the internal dynamic of its ...
Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.
An absorbing, highly acclaimed examination of Africa's transition from colonialism to revolution to the social turmoil of today. "Probably the most concise indictment available in the English language of how colonialism and neocolonialism, with a lot of help from capitalism and communism, turned the continent upside down".--The Washington Post.
Depicts the true genius of the many peoples of Africa and explores their cultures. It is a history of a society and culture shattered by the slave traders and the imperialists and only now painfully reconstructing itself.
Basil Davidson's Africa in History was a landmark in the restoration of African history. For centuries the myth had prevailed that Africa had no history prior to direct contact with European 'civilization'. This new edition of Basil Davidson's book not only eradicated these myths, but takes account of much of the most recent scholarship about ...
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 ...
In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife Hazel spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. "Tir a'Mhurain" is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's beautifully sequenced photographs depict the perfect ...
The Bible in Stone, The Great Pyramid Enshrines an Exposition of the Secrets of the Universe. Its Science and Symbolism Convey the Divinity of the Lord Christ. Fascinating reading!
The African Genius presents the ideas, social systems, religions, moral values, arts, and metaphysics of a range of African peoples. Basil Davidson points toward the Africa that may emerge from an ancient civilization that was overlaid and battered by colonialism, then torn by the upheaval of colonialism's dismantlement. Davidson disputes the ...
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.
Fifty years after Ghana's independence, it is now clear that Kwame Nkrumah was 'a black star'. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah seized opportunities to lead the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa away from from colonialism. In 1957, he became the first Prime Minister of Ghana. By the time, he was overthrown in a coup in 1966 most African countries, ...
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 ...
A history of modern Africa tracing its troubled 20th century, from imperialism to the birth of independent nations, and portraying an African consciousness whose roots are as deep as its goals are new.
An important work in the debate over Africanism, Eurocentrism, and the historical role of Africa. This essay collection begins with an work on the roots and contributions of Africa's ancient kingdoms and ends with a reflection on what Davidson calls the "curse of Columbus".
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Un Paese: Portrait of an Italian Village
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Paul Strand (Photographer), Marguerite Shore (Translator), Cesare Zavattini
