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Posted: Tuesday May 15th, 2007 12:14 |
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Basil Davidson (born 9 November 1914 in Bristol England) is an acclaimed writer and Africanist historian with leftist[1][2] leanings. Before the carnation revolution, he was a particular expert in Portuguese Africa.
He has written several books and movies on the current plight of Africa. Colonialism and the rise of African emancipation movements have been central preoccupations of his work.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Career Overview
From 1939, he was a reporter for the London "Economist" in Paris, France. From December 1939, he was a Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)/MI-6 D Section (sabotage) officer sent to Budapest (see Special Operations Europe, chapter 3) to establish a news service as cover. In April 1941, with the Nazi invasion, he fled to Belgrade, Yugoslavia. From late 1942 to mid-1943, he was chief of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) Yugoslav Section in Cairo, Egypt, where he was James Klugmann's supervisor. From January 1945 he was liaison officer with partisans in Liguria, Italy. After the war, he was Paris correspondent for "The Times," "Daily Herald," "New Statesman," and the "Daily Mirror."
Awards
Davidson's book "The Lost Cities of Africa" won him the 1960 Anisfield-Wolf Award, for the best book that dealt with racial problems in creative literature. His work on African history won the 1970 Gold Medal from Haile Selassie. In 1976, he won the Medalha Amilcar Cabral. He received honorary degrees from the Open University of Great Britain in 1980, and the University of Edinburgh in 1981. For his film "Africa," he won the Gold Award, from the International Film and Television Festival of New York in 1984. He has won various other awards.
Selected Books
- . Let Freedom Come: Africa in Modern History
- . The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State;
- . A History of Africa
- . Lost Cities of Africa
- . African Kingdoms
- . African Civilization Revisited: From Antiquity to Modern Times
- . Old Africa Rediscovered
- . Black Mother
- . Africa in History
- . The Africans
- . The Liberation of Guine
- . In The Eye of the Storm: Angola's People
- . Africa in Modern History
- . Partisan Picture
- . Golden Horn (novel)
- . Special Operations Europe: Scenes From the Anti-Nazi War (1980)
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Posted: Tuesday May 15th, 2007 21:07 |
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I am a big fan of Davidsons books, particularly recommending to people for introductory/reference reading.
They make for vey easy reading and he gives good reference sources.
Those of you over 35 must remember his programme on BBC (I think) on African History mid 80's?
Definately on my recommened reading list. Despte the difference in politics.
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Posted: Friday May 18th, 2007 13:36 |
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http://dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/films/basil/index.htm
Overview
Africa: A Voyage of Discovery with Basil Davidson is a critically acclaimed informative series describing the history of Africa. The eight-hour series was produced in 1984. it is broken up into eight sections on four videos. Each section is 57 minutes long. Basil Davidson uses various resources. Davidson usually speaks as location footage of Africa is shown. From time to time, he makes an appearance in the videos. Also shown are archived media and dramatic reconstructions. The eight sections are listed below with subsections that we have created from notes.
Outline
- Different But Equal
- Mastering of a Continent
- Caravans of Gold
- The King and The City
- The Bible and the Gun
- The Magnificent African Cake
- The Rise of Nationalism
- The Legacy
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