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An African historian argues that the decision of Africa's leaders to form nation states based on fundamentally flawed European models reproduced the sectarian strife of Europe in Africa. 12,500 first printing.
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"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
"Perhaps the most important work on Africa to have appeared in our times."--David Rieff, Newsday
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"Perhaps the most important work on Africa to have appeared in our times."--David Rieff, Newsday
"This is a book of major importance. The Black Man's Burden is not only about Africa, but about ethnicity, nations, and the problem of living together in society everywhere."
-- Eric Hobsbawn, Author of Nations and Nationalism Since 1780
"Perhaps the most valuable work on Africa to have appeared in our times."
-- David Rieff, Newsday
"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."
-- Sanford J. Ungar, The Washington Post
"Scholarly yet passionate and provocative...[The Black Man's Burden] is also essential reading."
-- Christopher Hope, Los Angeles Times
"Davidson's small book is startlingly prescient; it seems to have been written out of next week's headlines."
-- The New Yorker
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- PublisherCrown
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 081291998X
- ISBN 13 9780812919981
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages355
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