Andrew D. Roberts

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Andrew Dunlop Roberts (born 1937) is a British historian of Africa. In 1998 he retired from the

School of Oriental and African Studies, as Emeritus Professor of the History of Africa.[1]

Life

Andrew Roberts was the eldest child of two British writers,

Cambridge University, he undertook research in Kampala before working as an oral historian in Dar es Salaam. He was a doctoral student of Jan Vansina at University of Wisconsin–Madison, researching the history of the Bemba people in Zambia. His doctoral field research, originally conducted in 1964-5, ultimately resulted in the 1973 monograph A history of the Bemba. From 1968 to 1971 he was a research fellow at the University of Zambia.[2]

Roberts later took up a post at the School of African and Oriental Studies, taking early retirement from SOAS in 1998.

Works

References

  1. ^ Jan-Bart Gewald; Marja Hinfelaar; Giacomo Macola, eds. (2011). "Dedication". Living the end of empire: Politics and society in late colonial Zambia. Brill. p. vi.
  2. ^ McCracken, John (2011). "Andrew D. Roberts: An appreciation". In Jan-Bart Gewald; Marja Hinfelaar; Giacomo Macola (eds.). Living the end of empire: Politics and society in late colonial Zambia. Brill. pp. ix–xii.