John M. Lonsdale (born 1937) is a British Africanist and historian.
He is Emeritus Professor of Modern African History at the Centre of African Studies in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.
[1] As a schoolboy, he spent three summer holidays during 1953-1956 in Kenya where his father had just taken a job.
[3] In 1956 he started his national service as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles.
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