Andrew D. Roberts
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
- Tanzania before 1900. Nairobi: Published for the Historical Association of Tanzania by the East African Publishing House, 1968.
- Recording East Africa's past: a brief guide for the amateur historian . Nairobi: Published for the History Department, University College, Dar es Salaam, by the East African Publishing House, 1968.
- A history of the Bemba; political growth and change in north-eastern Zambia before 1900. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973.
- A history of Zambia. London: Heinemann, 1976.
- The Colonial moment in Africa : essays on the movement of minds and materials, 1900-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
- (ed.) The Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 7: From 1905 to 1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.