Let Freedom Come

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The New York Review of Books has praised Basil Davidson as "the most effective popu-larizer of African history and archeology outside Africa, and certainly the one best trusted in Black Africa itself." Davidson's previous, acclaimed works, among them The Lost Cities of Africa, African Slave Trade, The African Past, and The African Genius, have laid the groundwork for Let Freedom Come, the capstone to his brilliant oeuvre on Africa.
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. It is a history considered above all from the standpoint of nationalism during the twentieth century. Through long previous development, the Africans of the nineteenth century had organized themselves into a very large number of... Tovább

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The New York Review of Books has praised Basil Davidson as "the most effective popu-larizer of African history and archeology outside Africa, and certainly the one best trusted in Black Africa itself." Davidson's previous, acclaimed works, among them The Lost Cities of Africa, African Slave Trade, The African Past, and The African Genius, have laid the groundwork for Let Freedom Come, the capstone to his brilliant oeuvre on Africa.
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. It is a history considered above all from the standpoint of nationalism during the twentieth century. Through long previous development, the Africans of the nineteenth century had organized themselves into a very large number of communities. A hundred years later, through an extraordinary and perhaps unique experience, they became organized into some fifty nations. What events and ideas have steered, and continue to steer, this transformation?
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 this 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.
Basil Davidson is the author of five novels and four books of nonfiction, as well as twelve books on Africa (most recently. Can Africa Survive?), many of which are required reading in courses taught in Britain, Africa, and the United States. He has lectured on African history at American universities from coast to coast, and lives in Hereford, England.
The African Genius
"Basil Davidson has long been the most effective popularizer of African history and archeology, and certainly the one best trusted in Black Africa Itself. In The African Genius he has turned his historian's eye to the question of v/hat social anthropology has to add to the picture of the African past, and the result is the most serious and best integrated of all his
books." _ J Oliver, The New York Review of Books
The Lost Cities of Africa
'The Lost Cities of Africa is the only book I know of which is a systematic, scientific and thoroughly up-to-date presentation of the history, prehistory, archeology and prehistoric anthropology or human palaeontology of all Africa, except for the Moorish-Arab Northwest corner."
— Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"Basil Davidson's book is Itself a singular accomplishment Mr, Davidson has written an exciting and richly detailed
book." „ .
—James Duffy, The New York Times Book Review
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