AFRICAN HISTORY IN BRITISH UNIVERSITIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

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Journal Article AFRICAN HISTORY IN BRITISH UNIVERSITIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Get access JOHN MCCRACKEN JOHN MCCRACKEN This is the Presidential Address delivered at the biennial conference of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom held at the University of Stirling, 10 September 1992. John McCracken spent six years, between 1959 and 1965, at Cambridge University where his interest in African history was aroused by Ronald Robinson and Jack Gallagher. He taught and researched for a year at the then University of Rhodesia in 1964. He then taught for four years at the University of Dares Salaam before moving to Stirling in 1969. Between 1980 and 1983 he was Professor of History at the University of Malawi. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 239–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098612 Published: 01 April 1993