10 Facts About Terence Ranger

Terence "Terry" Osborn Ranger was a prominent British Africanist, best known as a historian of Zimbabwe.

Terence Ranger published and edited dozens of books and wrote hundreds of articles and book chapters, including co-editing The Invention of Tradition with Eric Hobsbawm.

Terence Ranger was the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford and the first Africanist fellow of the British Academy.

Terence Ranger was deported in 1963 and took up a lectureship at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, where his colleagues included John Lonsdale, John Iliffe and John McCracken.

In 1969, Terence Ranger moved to the US to work at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he mostly researched African religion.

Terence Ranger moved back to the United Kingdom in 1974 to take up a professorship at the University of Manchester where his research focused on Zimbabwe.

In 1980, Terence Ranger founded the Britain Zimbabwe Society with Guy Clutton-Brock, of which he was president.

Terence Ranger retired in 1997 but continued as an emeritus fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and spent time at the University of Zimbabwe, where he undertook research for his book Bulawayo Burning, which explores Bulawayo's urban cultural history.

In retirement, Terence Ranger was made a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.

Terence Ranger died at his home in Oxford on 3 January 2015 at the age of 85.