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Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst OBE (3 December 1927 – 16 February 2017) was a British scholar, founding member of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, and former professor at the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
1 de mar. de 2018 · Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst OBE, historian and scholar of Ethiopia, passed away on February 16, 2017 at the age of 89 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he made his home with his wife of sixty years, Rita Pankhurst (born Eldon).
- Rebecca M. Nagy
- 2018
Richard Pankhurst was a prominent and influential historian of Ethiopia and Northeast Africa, who worked for decades in Addis Ababa. He published extensively on various aspects of Ethiopian culture, history, society and peoples, and was also involved in the return of Ethiopian treasures from abroad.
Richard Pankhurst authored more than twenty books on the history of Ethiopia, edited or compiled numerous others, and wrote many scholarly articles on a range of topics in Ethiopian economic, social, and political history, culture, art, and architecture (Rita Pankhurst 2002, 2007).
17 de fev. de 2017 · Richard Pankhurst, the son of the British women's rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst who became one of the world's leading experts on Ethiopian history and culture, has died aged 89.
Learn about the life and work of Dr. Richard Pankhurst, a non-Ethiopian historian who has lived and worked in Ethiopia for over four decades. He has written and edited many books and articles on Ethiopian history, culture, and politics, and founded the Institute of Ethiopian Studies.
For those wanting to delve below the surface of Ethiopia’s modern history — a story of war, dictatorship, drought and famine — Richard Pankhurst was their man.
