Africa’s ‘Agitators’: Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939

Jonathan Derrick

June, 2008
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70056-6
$45.00

"An impressive and scholarly synthesis of a large amount of historical data. The focus on individuals makes the text exciting to the general reader and the inclusion of communism as a foundational influence makes the book intriguing to followers of the field." — Robbie Shilliam, University of Oxford

Related Subjects

• African Studies

About the Author

Jonathan Derrick is a freelance editor and scholar who earned a degree in history from Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and for twenty years served on the editorial staff of West Africa Magazine. He has published several scholarly articles on African history and, with Ralph Austen, is the coauthor of Middlemen of the Cameroons River: The Duala and Their Hinterland, c.1600-c.1960.

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