John Iliffe (born 1 May 1939) is a British historian, specialising in the

history of Africa Archaic humans Out of Africa 1, emerged out of Africa between 0.5 and 1.8 million years ago. This was followed by the Recent African origin of modern humans, emergence of anatomically modern humans, modern humans (''Homo sapiens'') in East A ...

and especially

Tanzania Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to t ...

. He was Professor of African History at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

and fellow of

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

. He was awarded the 1988 Herskovits Prize for ''The African Poor: A History''. Iliffe was a fellow of the British Academy from 1989 to 2006.

Notable works

* ''Africans: The History of a Continent'' (1995) * ''Cattle Rancher'' * ''The African Poor : A History'' (1987) * ''East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession'' (1998) * ''A Modern History of Tanganyika'' (1979) * ''Honour in African history'' (2005) * ''Famine in Zimbabwe, 1890–1960'' (1990) * ''The Emergence of African Capitalism'' (1983) * ''Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World'' (2011) * ''The African AIDS Epidemic: A History'' (2006)

External links

Page at St John's College, Cambridge

Biography by the Society of Old Framlinghamians

''Africans: The History of a Continent''
(second edition) 1939 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Dar es Salaam British Africanists 21st-century British historians Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy ASA Best Book Prize winners Historians of Nigeria Historians of Tanzania Historians of Zimbabwe Professors of the University of Cambridge 20th-century British historians {{Africanist-stub