Davidson has eschewed the dry, academic style normally associated with works of history and in his endeavor to penetrate to the heart of Rhodes’ age, to explain why this man, so ordinary in many ways, should have become the object of a veneration almost unparalleled in British history so that not only streets and towns but entire countries bore his name.
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Prof. APOLLON DAVIDSON was born in 1929. He obtained his Masters degree in History at the Leningrad University in 1953 and his Ph.D. at the Institute of Universal History in 1958. In 1971 he obtained his second doctoral degree at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Moscow Lomonossov University. Davidson is a prominent Russian Africanist, author of seven monographs, and editor of numerous books on Southern and Tropical Africa. He is also the author of several hundred articles and a number of university syllabuses on African history. He was the first to lecture on African History in Moscow Lomonossov University, where he has been lecturing since 1962.
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