Volume 15, Number 11 · December 17, 1970
Black History
By Roland Oliver
The African Genius
by Basil Davidson
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 367 pp., $7.95
Africa to 1875: A Modern History
by Robin Hallett
History of the Modern World Series, University of Michigan, 483 pp., $8.95
Basil Davidson has long been the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa, and certainly the one best trusted in Black Africa itself. In The African Genius he has turned his historian's eye to the question of what social anthropology has to add to the picture of the African past, and the result is the most serious and best integrated of all his books.
Review, 1967 words
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