John Lonsdale (historian)

John M. Lonsdale (born 1937) is a British Africanist and historian. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern African History at the Centre of African Studies in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Trinity College there.[1] As a schoolboy, he spent three summer holidays during 1953-1956 in Kenya where his father had just taken a job.[2] He read history at Cambridge from 1958 through 1964.[3] In 1956 he started his national service as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles. His first teaching job was in Dar es Salaam in 1964.[2] Lonsdale studied the modern history of Kenya extensively and won the Outstanding African Studies Award of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom in 2006.[4]

Publications

Professor Lonsdale published many journal articles, books and book chapters including[1][5]

  • A political history of Nyanza, 1883-1945, PhD thesis University of Cambridge 1964[6]
  • Some Origins of Nationalism in East Africa, The Journal of African History 9 (1968), 119 - 146, Cambridge University Press[7]
  • Coping with the Contradictions: the Development of the Colonial State in Kenya, 1895-1914 by Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale, The Journal of African History 20 (1979), 487-505
  • The growth and transformation of the colonial state in Kenya, 1929-52, University of Nairobi, Dept. of History, [1980], Series: Staff seminar paper (University of Nairobi. Department of History), 79/80, n. 17
  • Explanation of the Mau Mau revolt, Johannesburg : University of the Witwatersrand, 1983
  • Kikuyu political thought and the ideologies of Mau Mau, Los Angeles (California), African Studies Association, 1986
  • Mau Mau through the Looking Glass, Index on Censorship 15(1986), 19-22[8]
  • South Africa in question, John Lonsdale (Ed.), Cambridge: African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge; London: Currey; Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1988
  • Unhappy Valley : Conflict in Kenya and Africa. Book One: State and class. Book Two: Violence & Ethnicity by Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale, Eastern African Studies. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. London: James Currey, Nairobi: Heinemann, 1992
  • Politics in Kenya by John Lonsdale and Wanyiri Kihoro, Edinburgh University, Centre of African Studies, 1992
  • 'Listen while I read' : orality, literacy and Christianity in the young Kenyatta's making of the Kikuyu, Edinburgh, 1995
  • Mau Mau and Nationhood : arms, authority & narration by E.S. Atieno Odhiambo and John Lonsdale, Oxford : Currey; Nairobi : EAEP; Athens : Ohio University Press, 2003
  • Writing for Kenya. the life and works of Henry Muoria by Wangari Muoria-Sal, Bodil Folke Frederiksen, John Lonsdale, Derek Peterson (Eds.). Series: African Sources for African History, Volume: 10, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2009
  • Chapter 1. On Writing Kenya's History, in A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics by Nicholas K. Githuku (Ed.), Lexington Books, 2021[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Centre of African Studies Professor John Lonsdale". www.african.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b Lonsdale, John (28 September 2008). "What's Wrong With Africa". www.scribd.com. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  3. ^ "John Lonsdale Emeritus Professor at Trinity College, Cambridge". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Distinguished Africanist Award". www.asauk.net. ASAUK. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Lonsdale, John". Worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  6. ^ Lonsdale, John (1964). A political history of Nyanza, 1883-1945. ethos.bl.uk (Ph.D). Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  7. ^ Lonsdale, J. M. (January 1968). "Some Origins of Nationalism in East Africa". The Journal of African History. 9 (1): 119–146. doi:10.1017/S0021853700008380. S2CID 162644039. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  8. ^ Lonsdale, John (1 February 1986). "Mau Mau through the Looking Glass". Index on Censorship. 15 (2): 19–22. doi:10.1080/03064228608534039. S2CID 143839645. Retrieved 4 August 2022 – via journals.sagepub.com. Full-text PDF.
  9. ^ Githuku, Nicholas K. (October 18, 2021). A Tapestry of African Histories With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics. ISBN 978-1793623935.


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