Terence Ranger

Terence Ranger
Born
Terence Osborn Ranger

(1929-11-29)29 November 1929
South Norwood (London), United Kingdom
Died3 January 2015(2015-01-03) (aged 85)
Oxford, United Kingdom
EducationRoyal Grammar School High Wycombe;
The Queen's College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Historian, Africanist

Terence "Terry" Osborn Ranger FBA (29 November 1929 – 3 January 2015) 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.