Martin Meredith (born 1942) is a historian, journalist, and biographer. He has written several books on Africa and its modern history.
Life
Meredith first worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa for ''
The Observer
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'' and ''
Sunday Times
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'', then as a research fellow at
St Antony's College, Oxford
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. Living near
Oxford
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, he is now an independent commentator and author.
Meredith's writing has been described as authoritative and well-documented, despite the pessimism so often imposed upon his subject matter.
Bibliography
* ''The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour'' (2014)
* ''
The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence'' (2011)
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* ''Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa'' (2007)
* ''Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future'' (2007)
* ''
The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence'' (2005)
* ''The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair'' (2005)
* ''
Elephant Destiny: Biography of an Endangered Species in Africa'' (2004)
* ''Our Votes, Our Guns:
Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe'' (2003)
* ''Fischer's Choice: The Life of
Bram Fischer
Abraham Louis Fischer (23 April 19088 May 1975) was a South African Communist lawyer of Afrikaner descent with partial Anglo-African ancestry from his paternal grandmother, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti- ...
'' (2002)
* ''Coming to Terms: South Africa’s Search for Truth'' (2001)
* ''
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( , ; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa f ...
: A Biography'' (1999)
* ''South Africa’s New Era: The 1994 Election'' (1994)
* ''In the Name of
Apartheid
Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...
: South Africa in the Post War Period'' (1988)
* ''The First Dance of Freedom: Black Africa in the Postwar Era'' (1984)
* ''The Past is Another Country:
Rhodesia
Rhodesia ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state, unrecognised state in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979. Rhodesia served as the ''de facto'' Succession of states, successor state to the ...
'' 1890–1979 (1979)
See also
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Colin Legum (1919–2003), South African journalist and writer on Africa
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Basil Davidson (1914–2010), British journalist and writer on Africa
References
External links
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Martin Meredith: Nelson Mandela: A Biography – Interview May 2010Perseus Books
British biographers
British historians
British reporters and correspondents
Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford
Historians of Africa
Living people
1942 births
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