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Prof. Dr. Terence Ranger
Terence Ranger was born in 1929 and took his first degree and doctorate at
Oxford.He went to the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1957
as Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History, but rapidly become
involved in the human rights struggle and turned himself into a historian of
Africa. He was deported from Rhodesia in 1963 and thereafter held Chairs at
the Universities of Dar es Salaam, UCLA, Manchester and Oxford. On retiring
from Oxford in 1997 he went to the University of Zimbabwe as Visting
Professor and taught there for four academic years. He has published nine
monographs, edited ten books and published some 150 articles and book
chapters. Among his publications are:
'Great Spaces Washed with Sun: the Matopos and Uluru Compared', in Kate
Darian-Smith, et.al., Text, Theory, Space. Land, Literature and History in
South Africa and Australia, Routledge, London, 1996.
'Making Zimbabwean Landscapes: painters, projectors and priests',
Paideuma,43,1997. Special issue on Landscape.
'African Views of the Land: a Research Agenda', Transformation,44, 2000.
Voices From the Rocks. Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of
Zimbabwe, James Currey, Oxford, 1999.
Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor and Terence Ranger, Violence and Memory.
One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, James Currey, Oxford,
2000.