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In this Issue

Analysing Africa

  • Ibadan 1960 - Martin Banham
  • The LUCAS Schools' Global Citizenship Project - Jane Plastow
  • Supernumeraries of the Human Race? Reflections on the African 'holocaust' - Morris Szeftel

Reading Africa

  • Review of African Theatre and Performances - Martin Banham
  • Review of Ngoma: Approaches to Arts Education in Southern Africa - Martin Banham
  • Review of Various titles from Bayreuth African Studies - Martin Banham
  • Review of Black Star / The African Slave Trade - Martin Banham
  • Review of Ngugi wa Thiong’o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer - Martin Banham
  • Review of State of Violence: Politics, Youth and Memory in Contemporary Africa - Michael Etherton
  • Review of African Theatre: Youth - Tim Prentki
  • Review of Aawambo Kingdoms: History and Cultural Change - Will Jackson
  • Review of Public and Private Universities in Kenya / Gender in the Making of the Nigerian University System / Change and Transformation in Ghana's Publicly Funded University - James Gibbs
  • Review of Beautiful Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics - Will Rea
  • Review of Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa - Michael Medley
  • Review of Democratic Reform in Africa: Its Impact on Governance and Poverty Alleviation - Michael Medley
  • Review of Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century - Ineke van Kessel
  • Review of Globalisation and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness - Dr. Olasunkanmi Sholarin
  • Review of Writing Madness: Borderlines of the body in African literature - Jane Plastow
  • Review of Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon - Bill Jong-Ebot

Leeds African Studies Bulletin No. 69 (2007/08) Friday 29 June 2007

Review of Black Star / The African Slave Trade

By Martin Banham (University of Leeds)

Abstract

 

  • Article keywords:
  • Basil Davidson
  • Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
  • Kwame Nkrumah
  • Martin Banham
  • slavery

Black Star: A View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah. Basil Davidson. James Currey, Oxford: 2007, pp. 225, ISBN 978 184701 010 0, £14.95 (pb).

The African Slave Trade. Basil Davidson. James Currey, Oxford: 2007, pp.304, ISBN 978 0 85255 798 3, ££12.95 (pb).

These are new editions of two of Basil Davidson’s outstanding studies, the first published originally in 1973, and the second in 1961. The study of Nkrumah is supported by a short but pertinent foreword from Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong (Professor of History at Harvard), who comments that “Nkrumah comes alive in Black Star … and the reader gains a new understanding of a great man”. The book is a fine example of Basil Davidson’s humane scholarship, a quality that is pre-eminently evident in his brilliant study of the African slave trade. In 2007, when in Britain we mark the abolition of the slave trade, the re-issue of this volume, in its comprehensiveness, detail and sensitivity, is greatly to be welcomed.

[Published in Leeds African Studies Bulletin 69 (2007), pp. 94-95]

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