Note from ROAPE Volume 14 Number 40
Basil Davidson from Eritrea

Another of ROAPE's editors, Basil Davidson, has been in Eritrea. While there, on 17 March 1988, he saw the culmination of a major Eritrean People's Liberation Army offensive against Mengistu's Ethiopian troops along the Nacfa front. The Eritrean's surprised the BBC World Service by their ‘phone call’ from a bunker at EPLF Headquarters in the Eritrean base area. What follows is the interview with Davidson ...