BASIL
DAVIDSON
Basil Davidson was born in Bristol, England, on 9 November 1914.
From 1951 onward, he travelled to Africa every year. He served as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of Edinburgh. He was also invited as a visiting professor at various universities, including institutions in Ghana and Nigeria.
The works of Basil Davidson on Africa cover a wide range of topics, from history to the political analysis of contemporary issues, and are too numerous to list in full here.
Some of his most important works include Report on Southern Africa (1952), Old Africa Rediscovered (1959), and The African Past (1964). He also wrote various other analyses of international developments, as well as five novels.
His books have been translated into many languages and are widely used as textbooks for the study of African history in universities around the world.