Africa in Modern History – The Search for a New Society –

“This book is a history of modern Africa, from the 1880s to the present day, by way of the development of African political ideas and practice. It is a history that is here considered, above all, from the standpoint of nationalism through the twentieth century.
Through long previous development, the Africans of the  nineteenth century had organized themselves into a very large number of communities. A hundred years later, through an extraordinary and perhaps unique experience, they became organized into some fifty nations, forty-six on a count of the mid-70s with several more on the way. One phase of history came to an end.

Another evidently began, and now continues. Why? How? What ideas have steered, and steer, this transformation?

Few writers have done more to analyse and explain the history and culture of Africa than Basil Davidson. …”