Michael Crowder
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Michael Crowder (9 June 1934 – 14 August 1988)[1][2] was a British historian and author notable for his books on the history of Africa and particularly on the history of West Africa.[3][4]
Early life and education
Michael Crowder was born in London, England, on 9 June 1934, and was educated at Mill Hill School. After earning a first-class honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at Hertford College, Oxford, in 1957, he returned to Lagos, Nigeria – where he had previously been conscripted to the Nigeria Regiment from 1953 to 1954 for his British national service[5] – to become first Editor of Nigeria Magazine in 1959.[5]
Academic career
Crowder commenced his career as a secretary at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ibadan. In 1964, he was Visiting Lecturer in African History at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone in 1965.
While in Nigeria from 1968 to 1978, he was appointed as Research Professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ife (Now Obafemi Awolowo University). Afterwards, he became Professor of History at Ahmadu Bello University and finally was Research Professor in History at the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Lagos in the 1970s. After his return to London in 1979, he worked as an editor for the British magazine History Today. He was also Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE), and Professor of History at the University of Botswana in the 1980s, while he worked as a Consultant Editor until his death.[6][7][8][9]
He died in London on 14 August 1988, aged 54.[10]
Selected books
- The Story of Nigeria (1962)
- Eze Goes to School, co-authored with Onuora Nzekwu (1963)
- West Africa Under Colonial Rule (1968)
- West African Resistance (1971)
- West Africa: An Introduction to its History (1977)
- Akin Goes to School, co-authored with Christie Ade Ajayi (1978)
- Colonial West Africa (1978)
- The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 8: From c.1940 to c.1975 (1984), Cambridge University Press. Template:ISBN.
See also
- John Fage, another early Africanist specialising in West Africa
- Anthony Kirk-Greene
- Ibadan School
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.West Africa. West Africa Publishing Company Limited. July 1988.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burgess, Patricia; Roland Turner (1988). The Annual Obituary. St. James Pr. ISBN 9781558620506.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lim, David C. L. (1 January 2005). The Infinite Longing for Home: Desire and the Nation in Selected Writings of Ben Okri and K.S. Maniam. Rodopi. pp. 105–. ISBN 90-420-1677-9.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jackson, Ashley (1999). Botswana, 1939-1945: An African Country at War. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-0-19-820764-1.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Michael Crowder". Goodreads. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ogbaa, Kalu (1999). Understanding Things Fall Apart: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series). Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-3029-47. ISSN 1074-598X.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Asiwaju, A. I. (1985). Partitioned Africans: Ethnic Relations Across Africa's International Boundaries, 1884-1984. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN 978-0-905-8389-15.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ajayi, J. F. Ade (1992). People and empires in African history: essays in memory of Michael Crowder. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-08997-6.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Michael Crowder (Biographical details)". British Museum. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Michael Crowder" (PDF). Journal of African History. 29 (3): i–ii. 1988. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.J. F. Ade Ajayi; Michael Crowder (October 1990). History of West Africa. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-03737-2.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Michael Crowder; Guda Abdullahi (1979). Nigeria: An Introduction to Its History. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-60346-2.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.J. F. Ade Ajayi (1992). People and empires in African history: essays in memory of Michael Crowder. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-08997-6.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kalu Ogbaa (1 January 1999). Understanding Things Fall Apart: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-313-30294-7.
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