John Iliffe

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John Iliffe (born May 1, 1939 ) is a British historian.

Life

Iliffe studied from 1961–1963 at Makerere College in Kampala , Uganda . From 1965 to 1970 he was a lecturer and then in 1971 head of the history department at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania .

From 1971 to 1980 Iliffe was Deputy Director of History Research at the University of Cambridge . During this time, in 1978, he also conducted research at Bayero University in Kano , Nigeria . In 1982 he was a visiting professor of history at Chancellor College of the University of Malawi . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1996 .

Iliffe is currently (2017) Professor of Modern African History at the University of Cambridge. He has been teaching and researching there at St. John's College since 1990 . He is known for his work on the colonial and post-colonial history of East Africa, but has also written extensive accounts of the history of the whole of Africa or of individual African states.

Publications (selection)

  • Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World . James Currey Publisher, Woodbridge, Surrey (England) 2011, ISBN 978-1-84701-027-8 .
  • Tanganyika under German Rule, 1905-1912 . 2nd edition Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-05371-6 .
  • The African AIDS Epidemic: A History . James Curry Publisher, Woodbridge, Surrey (England) 2006, ISBN 0-85255-890-2 .
  • Honor in African History . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-54685-0 .
  • East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0-521-63272-2 .
  • Africans: The History of a Continent . 2nd edition Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-86438-0 .
  • The African Poor: A History . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987, ISBN 0-521-34877-3 .
  • The Emergence of African Capitalism . The Anstey Memorial Lectures in the University of Kent , at Canterbury , 10-14 May 1982, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 1982 ISBN 0-8166-1237-4 (paperback).
  • A Modern History of Tanganyika . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969; digitally printed version 2008 ISBN 978-0-521-10052-6 (paperback).
  • with GCK Gwassa: Records of the Maji Maji Rising , East African Publishing House, Nairobi, Kenya.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: John Iliffe. Academia Europaea, accessed December 31, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Iliffe, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1939