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- Title
Bill Freund (6 July 1944 – 17 August 2020).
- Authors
Shenton, Bob
- Abstract
In his autobiography, Bill points to his years at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Nigeria (1974-78) as being the time when he, as he puts it, "came out" as a Marxist (Freund, [10]: 126). Just as Fred Cooper's departure from the university had extended Bill's employment there, so too did the historian Leroy Vail's declining a visiting position at the University of Cape Town provide the opening for Bill to go back to the city where he had completed much of his doctoral research a dozen years before. It has been remarked that Bill Freund wore his theory lightly. First, on a limited research grant in England, then on a short-term contract at the University of Dar es Salaam, followed by a three-year temporary teaching contract at Harvard University, Bill, as itinerant scholar, researched and wrote I The Making of Contemporary Africa i (Freund, [5]).
- Subjects
SLUMS; FOOD adulteration; SOUTH African history; NEGOTIABLE instruments
- Publication
Development & Change, 2022, Vol 53, Issue 6, p1386
- ISSN
0012-155X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/dech.12738