Part Two: Settler Colonialism in Kenya: The Origins of Mau Mau
Update: 2006-10-26
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BIO: Professor John Lonsdale spent 1940-44 as an infant war refugee near Cleveland, Ohio. Matriculated from Trinity in 1958 after National Service in the King's African Rifles. PhD from Trinity 1964. First teaching job at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1964-66. Fellow of Trinity since 1964. Director of Studies in History for Trinity 1968-2000. Tutor at Trinity 1974-83. Retired as Professor of Modern African History at the University of Cambridge 2004. Won University of London Prize for book on Commonwealth History 1994; elected 'Distinguished Africanist' by the African Studies Association of the UK 2006. Since 2002 Vice- President of Royal African Society.
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