Basil Davidson says” So I have taken three important areas of Africa -those of the old Congo Kingdom, of the city-states of the Est Coast and some of the strong societies of the Guinea Coast- and examined those against a general background of their time and circumstance..Inevitably this means a fresh look at the overseas slave trade , the steady year -by-year export of African labour to the West Indies and the Americas that marked the greatest and most fateful migration - forced migration - in the history of man “

Author; Basil Davidson

Publisher; James Currey

ISBN; 9780852557983