Anthony Hamilton Millard Kirk-Greene CMG MBE was a British historian and ethnographer best known for his works on Nigerian history and the history of British colonial administration in Africa.
12 Facts About Anthony Kirk-Greene
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Anthony Kirk-Greene was president of the African Studies Association of the UK from 1988 to 1990 and vice-president of the Royal African Society.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene was born in Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England on 16 May 1925.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene served as a captain in the Indian Army from 1943 to 1947 during World War II.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene later graduated from Cambridge University in 1950 and in 1954 with Bachelor and Masters of Arts degrees.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene obtained a Master of Arts from Oxford University in 1967.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene joined the Colonial Service, serving as an administrator in Nigeria and eventually rising to the rank of Senior District Commissioner.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene was adjunct professor from 1992 to 1999 at the Stanford Program at Oxford.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene wrote a number of well-received works on Nigerian history and the Nigerian Civil War as well as the political science of post-independence Africa more generally.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene wrote a number of important studies on the history of the Colonial Service.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene was president of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom from 1998 to 1990 and was awarded ASAUK's "Distinguished Africanist" award in 2005.
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Anthony Kirk-Greene died in Oxford on 8 July 2018 at the age of 93.