Neil Parsons

(19**-) Historian, lecturer and author, with an interest in film and performance. Born and educated up to secondary level in England, and first came to Botswana as a teenage volunteer (as a teacher's aid at Moeng College), before returning to England. Then studied for a first degree (BA London External) at North-Western Polytechnic, now the University of North London, proceeding to African Studies and a doctorate in History at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. His first academic job was teaching history at the University of Zambia, followed by the University of Swaziland, then part of the joint University of Botswana (Lesotho) and Swaziland. After that he became a researcher and freelance author in History and Education for some years, in England and Botswana and for short periods in the U.S. After a short stay at the University of Cape Town, he joined the University of Botswana History Department in 1996 (also teaching film studies) and has since retired. His many published works include A New History of Southern Africa (Macmillan, 1982 & 1993), King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes (University of Chicago Press, 1998) and Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman, a biography of Franz Taibosh, better known as Clicko the Clown (Jacana Media, 2009).

Sources

Go to South African Theatre/Bibliography

Return to

Return to ESAT Personalities P

Return to South African Theatre Personalities

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page