West Africa
Leader of a Continent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9198230 |
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| Authors | Basil Davidson (0000-0001-5082-7872, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1952 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Publication date | 1952-07-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-004-03-1952-07_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2007779957 |
| Language | EN |
It used to be called "the white man's grave." Fever-ridden mangrove swamps, the chaos of cannibal tribes, the grave of Mungo Park and many brave explorers: these and a few other well-impressed comminglings of fact and legend were all that most of us have known of "West Africa"-these and the occasional glimpse from an anchored liner, of twisted jungle vegetation which twirled and tailed away in everlasting rain, meanwhile we lay in deckchairs with the thermometer trembling at a hundred in the shade.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Ancient history · Archaeology · Biology · Ethnology · Geography · Jungle · Legend · Mangrove · Rainforest · Swamp · Vegetation (pathology) · White (mutation) · African history and culture studies · Ecology · History
| Highly cited | No |
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