Terence "Terry" Osborn Ranger FBA (29 November 1929 – 3 January 2015) was a prominent British Africanist, best known as a historian of Zimbabwe.
Ranger became interested in African history and developed views that were considered radical by the white government of the time, leading the Rhodesian authorities to restrict his movement to within a three-mile radius of his home.
[1] In 1969, Ranger moved to the US to work at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he mostly researched African religion.
In the 1990s he undertook two research projects on the history of the Matabeleland region of Zimbabwe, Voices from the Rocks (1999) and Violence and Memory (2000), as well as Are We Not Also Men?
He was the first Africanist fellow of the British Academy and the first historian of Africa to sit on the board of the historical journal Past & Present.