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Basil Davidson has been committed to anti-racism since the 1950s, and has travelled in and written extensively about Africa ever since. He has brought to the attention of the world the sacrifice and suffering of black Africans under colonial rule, and has written around 25 books on Africa. His own struggles have been fulfilled with the new freedom in South Africa, and his name will now be for ever closely associated with Africa's struggle for liberation.

By TONY HODGES (Oslo, Fridtjof Nansen Institute; London and Oxford, International African Institute, in association with James Currey; Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2001), 201pp. 11.95 £. This occasionally tendentious snapshot [...]

By VICTORIA BRITTAIN (London, Pluto Press, 1998). 108pp. 9.99 °. This synoptic account of the past fifteen years of the conflict in Angola opens with a graphic description of Victoria [...]

A People Betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda's genocide By L. R. MELVERN (London, Zed Books, 2000), 272pp. 16.95 £. The Fabian Society published in April 1964 Aaron [...]

Dorothy Hodgkin: a life By GEORGINA FERRY (London, Granta Books, 1998). 423pp. 20.00 £ Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who lived from 1910 to 1994, was an outstanding world scientist of our [...]