Ronald Segal fue un destacado autor y editor sudafricano cuya obra se involucró frecuentemente con cuestiones políticas y sociales. Su educación temprana y sus experiencias en Sudáfrica moldearon profundamente su escritura posterior. Segal también fue el fundador y editor de la revista *Africa South*, que sirvió como una plataforma crucial para el discurso político y cultural. Sus escritos a menudo exploraron temas de raza, colonialismo y la lucha por la liberación, tanto dentro de África como a nivel mundial. La vida de Segal en el exilio y su continua actividad política informaron su perspectiva distintiva sobre los asuntos mundiales.
In Islam's Back Slaves, Ronald Segal traces the business of slavery from the birth of Islam in seventh-century Arabia to the present, where, in Sudan and Mauritania, Africans continue to be bought and sold. It is the first book for a general readership to describe in detail the Islamic slave trade. It is also a valuable corrective to the view that the enslavement of Africans was a purely European question.
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