Terence Osborn Ranger
British historian (1929-2015) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 85
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Something wrong?Terence "Terry" Osborn Ranger was a prominent British Africanist, best known as a historian of Zimbabwe. Part of the post-colonial generation of historians, his work spanned the pre- and post-Independence (1980) period in Zimbabwe, from the 1960s to the present.
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Akin MabogunjeBoth received Distinguished Africanist Award
Howard WolpeBoth received Distinguished Africanist Award
Georges Nzongola-NtalajaBoth received Distinguished Africanist AwardElizabeth ColsonBoth received Distinguished Africanist AwardAbout this person
Terence "Terry" Osborn Ranger was a prominent British Africanist, best known as a historian of Zimbabwe. Part of the post-colonial generation of historians, his work spanned the pre- and post-Independence (1980) period in Zimbabwe, from the 1960s to the present. He published and edited dozens of books and wrote hundreds of articles and book chapters, including co-editing The Invention of Tradition (1983) with Eric Hobsbawm. He was the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford and the first Africanist fellow of the British Academy.
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