Ronald Segal byl vlivný jihoafrický autor a redaktor, jehož práce se často zabývaly politickými a sociálními otázkami. Vychován v Jižní Africe, jeho raná studia a zkušenosti ho hluboce ovlivnily v jeho pozdějším psaní. Segal byl také zakladatelem a redaktorem časopisu *Africa South*, který se stal platformou pro politické a kulturní diskuse. Jeho díla často zkoumala témata jako rasa, kolonialismus a boj za svobodu v Africe i mimo ni. Segalův život v exilu a jeho pokračující angažovanost v politice formovaly jeho jedinečný pohled na svět.
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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