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History, Culture, Politics Basil Davidson. Times, $25 (416p) ISBN 0-8129-2278-6
A prolific scholar and journalist, Davidson has written more than 20 books on Africa, including The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State. His latest is a mixed bag of some 20 essays and reports published during the past 40 years. Readers who are familiar with the author's work will glean the most from this collection, but others will be aided by Davidson's occasional introductions, which not only contextualize his role in the once-infant area of African …