Description
A man would have to be very brave or very foolhardy to try to forecast precisely the pattern of Africa's future. Where events outrun the printing-presses, discretion is the better part of omniscience.
In Which Way Africa? Basil Davidson, the well-known writer on African affairs, has steered clear of political ju-ju. Instead and infinitely more to the purpose - he has made what is the only up-to-date and comprehensive analysis in English - and probably in any language of the social, economic, and political motives, myths, ideas, and beliefs which underly modern African nationalism.
