John Iliffe (historian)

John Iliffe ( born May 1, 1939) is a British historian.

Life

Iliffe studied in the years 1961-1963 at Makerere College in Kampala, Uganda. From 1965-1970 he was a lecturer in 1971 and then Head of the Department of History at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

In the years 1971-1980 Iliffe was deputy director of the Research Center History at the University of Cambridge. During this time, he conducted research in 1978 also at the Bayero University in Kano in Nigeria. In 1982 he was a visiting professor of history at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.

Iliffe is currently (2011) Professor of Modern African History at the University of Cambridge. He teaches and researches there at St. John 's College. He is known for his work on the colonial and post- colonial history of East Africa, but also comprehensive representations of the history of Africa as a whole or of individual states of Africa has written.

Publications (selection)

• Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World. Publisher James Currey, Woodbridge, Surrey (England ) 2011, ISBN 978-1-84701-027-8.
• Tanganyika under German Rule, 1905 - 1912th 2nd ed Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-05371-6.
• The African AIDS Epidemic: A History. Publisher James Curry, Woodbridge, Surrey ( England) 2006, ISBN 0-85255-890-2.
• Honour in African History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-54685-0.
• East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0-521-63272-2.
• Africans: The History of a Continent. 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-86438-0. German: history of Africa. 2nd edition, CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46309-6.