John Donnelly Fage

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John Donnelly Fage (born June 3, 1921 in Teddington , Middlesex , today part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames , England ; † August 6, 2002 in Machynlleth , County Powys , Wales , Great Britain ) was a British historian specializing in history Africa .

Life

Fage passed all the exams at Magdalene College of the University of Cambridge and submitted the work The Achievement of Self-Government in Southern Rhodesia 1898-1923 for a doctorate in 1949 . He then went to the institution in Accra on what was then the Gold Coast, later called the University of Ghana . This was particularly associated with the University of London . There he taught for ten years until 1959 and was particularly concerned with the Atlantic slave trade .

Fage taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London from 1959 to 1963 . From 1963 to 1984 he taught and researched at the University of Birmingham , where he set up the Center of West African Studies (CWAS). In years of collaboration with Roland Anthony Oliver , he published the eight-volume Cambridge History of Africa at Cambridge University Press from 1975 to 1986 , after the two researchers' Short History of Africa , published in 1962 by Penguin Books , had been a great success in several editions and was published in twelve languages. Fage and Oliver co-founded The Journal of African History .

Fonts

  • Introduction to the History of West Africa. Cambridge University Press, 1955.
  • An Atlas of African History. Edward Arnold, London, 1958. 2nd edition: Arnold, London, ISBN 0-7131-5964-2 .
  • with Roland Anthony Oliver : A Short history of Africa. Penguin, London 1963.
    • German by Gerhard Schönmann: Brief history of Africa. Goldmann, Munich 1963.
    • New edition: German by Thomas Brückner : Brief history of Africa. Hammer, Wuppertal 2002, ISBN 3-87294-901-2 .
  • A History of West Africa: An Introductory Survey. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969.
  • as editor: Africa Discovers Her Past . Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-412275-1 .
  • A History of Africa. Hutchinson, London 1978. 4th edition, Routledge, London 2001.
  • Ghana: A Historical Interpretation. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 1979.
  • A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages. 1987.

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SURNAME Fage, John Donnelly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian, author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Teddington , Middlesex , England , now the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2002
Place of death Machynlleth , County Powys , Wales , United Kingdom