Kevin Shillington is a teacher and a
freelance historian
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based in
Dorset
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,
England
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,
United Kingdom
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.
Education
He graduated from
Trinity College Trinity College may refer to:
Australia
* Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales
* Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...
, located in
Dublin
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,
Ireland
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, with a major in
modern history in 1968.
Shillington did his postgraduate teacher training at the
University of Zambia
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, located in
Lusaka,
Zambia
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. He holds a
MA and
PhD in
African history
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from the
University of London
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.
Career
Shillington taught History and English at Secondary School in Zambia in the early 1970s. During the early 1980s, he trained history teachers at the
University of Botswana
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, whose main campus is located in
Gaborone
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Gaboron ...
,
Botswana
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.
[Shillington, Kevin (2005). ''History of Africa'' (revised 2nd edition). ]New York City
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: Palgrave Macmillan
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. . From the mid-1980s he has been a freelance historian and biographer, specializing mostly in African History.
Bibliography
His writing includes:
*''The Colonization of the Southern Tswana'' (1985)
*''A Junior Certificate History for Zimbabwe'' (1986; co-author)
*''History of Southern Africa'' (1987)
*''History of Africa'' (1989)
*''Jugnauth: Prime Minister of Mauritius'' (1991)
*''An African Adventure: A Brief Life of Cecil Rhodes'' (1992)
*''Ghana and the Rawlings Factor''(1992)
*''History of Africa'' (revised edition, 1995)
*''Causes and Consequences of Independence in Africa'' (1997)
*''Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda'' (1997; co-editor)
*''History of Southern Africa'' (2nd edition, 2002)
*''
Encyclopedia of African History
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'' (2004; editor)
*''Encarta Encyclopedia'' (contributor)
*''History of Africa'' (2nd revised edition, 2005)
*''History of Modern Seychelles'' (2009)
*''Luka Jantjie: Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier'' (2011)
*''History of Africa'' (3rd revised edition, 2012)
*''Albert Rene, the Father of Modern Seychelles. A Biography'' (2014)
*''History of Africa'' (4th edition, 2019)
*''Patrick van Rensburg: Rebel, Visionary and Radical Educationist'' (2020)
*''Charles Warren: Royal Engineer in the Age of Empire'' (2020)
See also
*
List of historians
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List of Trinity College Dublin people
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Armed forces
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*Eyre Coote (1762–1823), Irish British Army soldi ...
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List of University of London people
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Living people
University of Zambia alumni
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University of Botswana faculty
20th-century male writers
English Africanists