Stephen Ellis (historian)

Stephen Ellis
Stephen Ellis as he took up the Desmond Tutu Chair at the Vrije Universiteit in 2010
Born	Stephen Ellis (1953-06-13)13 June 1953 Nottingham, England
Died	29 July 2015(2015-07-29) (aged 62) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nationality	British
Education	Ph.D., University of Oxford (1981)
Occupation	Historian

Stephen Ellis (13 June 1953 – 29 July 2015) was a British historian and Africanist whose research focused on post-colonial West Africa and South Africa.^[1] He was a former editor of Africa Confidential and African Affairs, a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden, and a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.