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Michael Crowder (9 June 1934 – 14 August 1988) was a British historian and author notable for his books on the
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and particularly on the history of West Africa.


Early life and education

Michael was born in London and educated at
Mill Hill School Mill Hill School is a 13–18 mixed independent, day and boarding school in Mill Hill, London, England that was established in 1807. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. History A committee of Nonconformist me ...
. After earning a first class honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at
Hertford College, Oxford Hertford College ( ), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main ga ...
in 1957, he returned to Lagos (he had previously been conscripted to the
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in Lagos from 1953 to 1954 for his British national service) to become first Editor of ''Nigeria Magazine'' in 1959.


Academic career

Michael commenced his career as a secretary at the Institute of African Studies at the
University of Ibadan The University of Ibadan (UI) is a public research university in Ibadan, Nigeria. The university was founded in 1948 as University College Ibadan, one of many colleges within the University of London. It became an independent university in 196 ...
. In 1964 he was Visiting Lecturer in African History at the
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and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Fourah Bay College,
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in 1965. While in Nigeria from 1968 to 1978 he was appointed as Research Professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ife (Now
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). Afterwards, he became Professor of History at
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and finally as Research Professor in History at the Centre for Cultural Studies at the
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in the 1970s. He worked as an editor for the British Magazine ''
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'' after his return to London in 1979. He was also Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the LSE, and Professor of History at the University of Botswana in the 1980s while he worked as a Consultant Editor until his death.


Selected books

*''The Story of Nigeria'' (1962) *'' Eze Goes to School'', co-authored with Onuora Nzekwu (1963) *''West Africa Under Colonial Rule'' (1968) *''West African Resistance'' (1971) *''West Africa: An Introduction to its History'' (1977) *''Akin Goes to School'', co-authored with
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(1978) *''Colonial West Africa'' (1978) *''The Cambridge History of Africa'' (1984)


See also

*
John Fage John Donnelly Fage (3 June 1921–6 August 2002) was a British historian who was among the earliest academic historians specialising in African history, especially of the pre-colonial period, in the United Kingdom and West Africa. He publ ...
, another early Africanist specialising in West Africa *
Anthony Kirk-Greene Anthony Hamilton Millard Kirk-Greene CMG MBE (16 May 1925 – 8 July 2018) was a British historian and ethnographer best known for his works on Nigerian history and the history of British colonial administration in Africa. After a career as a ...
*
Ibadan School {{inline, date=July 2022 The Ibadan school of history was the first, and for many years the dominant, intellectual tradition in the study of the history of Nigeria. It originated at the University of Ibadan, in Ibadan, Nigeria, in the 1950s, and ...


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* * * * 1934 births 1988 deaths University of Lagos faculty Ahmadu Bello University faculty Historians of Nigeria British expatriates in Nigeria 20th-century British historians Obafemi Awolowo University faculty People educated at Mill Hill School Academics from London University of Botswana faculty Fourah Bay College faculty English historians English Africanists Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford Royal West African Frontier Force officers {{UK-historian-stub