Andrew D. Roberts
Andrew Dunlop Roberts (2 September 1937 – 16 October 2024) was a British historian who specialized in Africa. He spent most of his career at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), retiring in 1998 as Emeritus Professor of the History of Africa.
Roberts was the eldest child of two British writers, Michael Roberts and Janet Adam Smith. He studied at Cambridge University, did research in Kampala, and worked as an oral historian in Dar es Salaam.
As a doctoral student of Jan Vansina at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he studied the Bemba people in Zambia. His field research in 1964–1965 led to the 1973 book A History of the Bemba.
From 1968 to 1971 he was a research fellow at the University of Zambia. He later joined SOAS and retired early in 1998.
Roberts died on 16 October 2024, at the age of 87.
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