The Partisan
Jeremy Harding, 23 June 1994
The Search for Africa: A History in the Making
by Basil Davidson.
Currey, 373 pp., £25, March 1994,0 85255 719 1 Show More
by Basil Davidson.
Currey, 373 pp., £25, March 1994,
“... many young African intellectuals today, while the work of an older generation of writers – Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chinua Achebe and the novelist and film director, Sembène Ousmane – is never without some strong descriptive trace of the dispossession Davidson has in mind. And though there are problems with this sense of a disabling ... ”
