This is a big book from a skilful writer: clever, full of ideas and insights, stimulating and provocative
The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century by Richard Reid – An erudite and informed work
His footnotes are a trove of information and insights. Readers may wish that the maps, grouped at the front of the book, were better spaced to help them follow an argument that moves back and forth in time and place, but the book is an erudite and informed work that powerfully conveys the sense of multiple societies in flux.
First there was Ryanair: How the Ryan family came back from the brink and brought low-fare airlines to the worldCrime fiction: New works by Sara Gran, Michael Idov, Julia Dahl, Rachel Donohue and TC Parker That, Reid argues, is because the partition of the late 19th century was not a dramatic break with all that had gone before. Here too he takes up a point that he has made with great energy in previous work: the partition of Africa should not be the point of origin through which we seek to explain every aspect of African politics and society since the early 20th century.
The challenge of doing so may be all the greater because of the emphasis throughout the book on violence as the main dynamic of politics. The “revolution” of the title took many forms – and confusingly, Reid also repeatedly uses other terms – reform, insurgency, insurrection, innovation – apparently as synonyms for revolution. Sometimes they are even combined: “reformist insurgency”, “revolutionary insurgency” and “insurgent revolution” are all mentioned.
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