Background
Oliver, Roland Anthony was born on March 30, 1923 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Son of D.G. and Lorimer Janet (Donaldson) Oliver.
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Soft cover. 302 Pages. The authoritative survey of the work of Christian missions, of all denominations, throughout East Africa. The author has written a new foreword to this Edition and a number of corrections have been made.
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Oliver, Roland Anthony was born on March 30, 1923 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Son of D.G. and Lorimer Janet (Donaldson) Oliver.
Student, King's College, Cambridge University.
With Foreign Office, 1942—1945. R.J. Smith researcher King's College, Cambridge, 1946—1948. Lecturer School Oriental and African Studies, 1948—1958.
Reader in African history University London, 1958—1963, professor, 1963—1986. Organizer international conferences African history and archaeology, 1953—1961. Franqui professor University Brussels, 1961.
Visiting professor Northwestern University, 1962, Harvard University, 1967.
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Author: The Missionary Factor in East Africa, 1952, Sir Harry Johnston and the Scramble for Africa, 1957. Editor: The Dawn of African History, 1961. Co-editor (with D. Fage): A Short History of Africa, 1962.Co-editor: (with Gervase Mathew) A History of East Africa, 1963. Co-editor: (with A.E. Atmore) Africa Since 1800, The Journal African History, 1960-1973. Co-editor: (with B.M. Fagan) Africa in the Iron Age, 1975.Co-editor: (with A.E. Atmore) The African Middle Ages, 1981. General editor (with J.D. Fage) Cambridge History of Africa, 8 vols., 1975-1986.
Member of Academy Royale des Sciences d'Outremer, Royal African Society (vice president), British Institute Eastern Africa (president since 1981), African Studies Association 1967-1968, (named Distinguished Africanist 1989).
Married 1st Caroline Linehan in 1947 (died in 1983), one daughter. Married 2nd Suzanne Miers in 1990.