Kevin Shillington is a teacher and a freelance historian based in Dorset, England, United Kingdom.

[1] He graduated from Trinity College, located in Dublin, Ireland, with a major in modern history in 1968.

He holds a MA and PhD in African history from the University of London.

[1] Shillington taught History and English at Secondary School in Zambia in the early 1970s.

[1] From the mid-1980s he has been a freelance historian and biographer, specializing mostly in African History.