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"In this...a fascinating blend of straight history and personal reminiscence, he addresses himself to the most difficult question facing the contemporary historian of Africa: why is Africa in such desperate trouble?...In an age dominated by narrowly circumscribed monographs, there is much to welcome in a scholar who can draw examples as easily from Romanian and Croatian history as from African, who is never at a loss in extracting broad patterns from detailed events and who writes with panache and feeling..."Davidson, Basil Risbridger is the author of 'Black Man's Burden Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State', published 1993 under ISBN 9780812922103 and ISBN 0812922107.
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