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Africa: A Voyage of Discovery was a series about the history of Africa with Basil Davidson. It was produced in a collaboration between Channel 4, the Nigerian Television Authority and RM Arts in 1984 and consisted of eight parts in four episodes. The film received the Gold Award from the 1984 International Film and Television Festival of New York.
Basil Risbridger Davidson MC (9 November 1914 – 9 July 2010) was a British journalist and historian who wrote more than 30 books on African history and politics.According to two modern writers, "Davidson, a campaigning journalist whose first of many books on African history and politics appeared in 1956, remains perhaps the single-most effective disseminator of the new field to a popular ...
Lionel R Cliffe (1936 – 24 October 2013) was an English political economist and activist whose work focused on the struggle for land rights and freedom in Africa from the 1960s. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds .
6 Victories in a Beaufighter with N/RO S.V. (Vic) MacAllister [2] [page needed] North Africa, then bomber support and intruder operations over Germany [54] Oxspring, Robert Wardlow: 21 DFC**, AFC Page, Alan Geoffrey: 15 DSO, DFC* Pain, Derek Sydney 5 68, 89 Flew a Beaufighter with N/RO Briggs, John Victor [2] [page needed] Palliser, George ...
Mission Davidson was a World War II Special Operations Executive (SOE) military expedition to Yugoslav Partisans led by Basil Davidson, a peacetime journalist, Sergeant William Ennis and a wireless operator Sergeant Stanley Brandreth. Codenamed "Savannah", the mission landed by parachute at Petrovo Polje in central Bosnia on 16 August 1943.
In 1980, Percival made the acclaimed series Africa, with the historian Basil Davidson, for Channel 4. This was followed by The Great Famine, Living Islam and All Our Children. He also focused on horticulture as series producer of Gardeners' World and Channel 4's Real Gardens.
The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência da Guiné-Bissau), also known as the Bissau-Guinean War of Independence, was an armed independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea from 1963 to 1974. It was fought between Portugal and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ...
The Battle of Afabet was a three-day battle fought from 17 March through 20 March 1988 in and around the town of Afabet, as part of the Eritrean War of Independence. [4] The battle has been described as being the largest battle in Africa since the Second Battle of El Alamein. [5] It has been described as the most significant battle in terms of ...