The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation State - Hardcover

-- Eric Hobsbawn, Author of Nations and Nationalism Since 1780

"Perhaps the most valuable work on Africa to have appeared in our times."

-- David Rieff, Newsday

"Probably the most concise indictment available in the English language of how colonialism and neocolonialism, with a lot of help from capitalism and communism, turned the continent upside down."

-- Sanford J. Ungar, The Washington Post

"Scholarly yet passionate and provocative...[The Black Man's Burden] is also essential reading."

-- Christopher Hope, Los Angeles Times

"Davidson's small book is startlingly prescient; it seems to have been written out of next week's headlines."

-- The New Yorker