David Henige

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David Patrick Henige (born 1938)

bibliographer, academic librarian and Africanist scholar. The majority of Henige's academic career has been spent in affiliation with the University of Wisconsin–Madison
, where for over three decades he held the position of bibliographer in African studies at UW–Madison's Memorial Library.

Education

As an

Fieldwork towards his degree in Ghana, West Africa
. Henige's long association with the Memorial Library began during his PhD studies, when he worked for the library.

Career

After completing his PhD, Henige taught for a year at the

John D. Fage
.

Preferring the autonomy of a bibliographer to lecturing, Henige returned to Wisconsin in 1974 to take a position at the Memorial Library. He thereafter completed a master's degree in Library and information science in 1978. Henige was the founder and editor of the journal History in Africa from 1974 to 2010.[2]

Henige has written several books and more than 170 scholarly papers in his major fields of interest,

librarianship, epistemology, the nature of oral history and myth, and critiques of historical methodologies
.

Notes

  1. ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF). Retrieved on 2008-06-16.
  2. ISSN 1558-2744
    .

References

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