On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 18:45:12 +0000, in alt.obituaries
mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk (Mig.Rhodes) wrote:

Andrew Dunlop Roberts, who died 16 October 2024, aged 87, was a
British historian of Africa. In 1998 he retired from the School of
Oriental and African Studies, as Emeritus Professor of the History of
Africa.

Andrew Roberts was the eldest child of two British writers, Michael
Roberts and Janet Adam Smith.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-october-19-2024-nzpcbfkfj

After studying at Cambridge University, he undertook research in
Kampala before working as an oral historian in Dar es Salaam. He was a
doctoral student of Jan Vansina at University of Wisconsin–Madison,
researching the history of the Bemba people in Zambia. His doctoral
field research, originally conducted in 1964-5, ultimately resulted in
the 1973 monograph A history of the Bemba. From 1968 to 1971 he was a
research fellow at the University of Zambia. Roberts later took up a
post at the School of African and Oriental Studies, taking early
retirement from SOAS in 1998.