Legendary Professor and Historian, Terrence Ranger who died on the 2nd January in Oxford, UK, deserves national honours.
Zimbabweans have voiced that despite Prof Ranger being of British origin, he encountered the ill-treatment of a freedom fighter during the Chimurenga war when he was deported from Rhodesia. This should be so even though Ranger’s latter years were critical of Robert Mugabe’s torture and abuse of civilians, people commented.
Wrote Bvumavaranda Moyo, “The death of Professor Ranger is very, very sad. This man was one of God’s greatest gifts to the country and people of Zimbabwe. The quest for justice was at the core of his activities. He never wavered even at the worst of times. Given his passionate attachment to Zimbabwe, I consider him a national hero. He was already one even before death robbed him away from us.
“His deeds have rendered him immortal, at least in the hearts of those of us who know his role in the quest for universal suffrage in Zimbabwe as well as his tireless effort to keep our heritage from crumbling to dust.
Professor Terence Ranger was a great man,” he said.
Journalist and author Sarudzayi Chifamba added voice speaking highly of Ranger, “He was my external examiner when I studied History at the University of Zimbabwe in 1994. I then met him more often between 1995 and 1999 when I worked at the National Archives of Zimbabwe. when I wrote an anthology of Zimbabwean folktales i sent him a copy, which he so much loved. Rest in peace the learned Professor. Zimbabwean history would not be adequate without your name being mentioned. In addition, you played a crucial role in documenting our political and social history.”
According to an announcement on the British Zimbabwe Society Facebook, Prof Ranger passed away on Friday. It read, “an email from Marieke Clarke has just shared the news that Terry Ranger passed away in his sleep last night in his home at Oxford. Marieke was asked by Shelagh to send the news around. Marieke also asks that you email her, not phone her, for follow up information. May he rest in Light and peace. There is so much to say but let this simple information suffice for now.”
Ranger was deported from Rhodesia in 1963 and thereafter held Chairs at the Universities of Dar es Salaam, UCLA, Manchester and Oxford.
On retiring from Oxford where he held the Rhodes Chair of Race Relations until 1997, he went to the University of Zimbabwe as Visiting Professor and taught there for four academic years.
Terence Ranger has published and edited dozens of books, and published some 150 articles and book chapters.
In his work, Ranger contributed substantially to the historiography of East Africa in general and Zimbabwe in particular.
He is equally renowned for the continuous methodological renewal of African historiography over the last decades.
In 1980, Ranger founded the Britain Zimbabwe Society with Guy Clutton-Brock, of which he was president (2006-2014).
During 1980-82, he was President of the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK).
He also was a trustee of the Asylum Welcome organisation, and much of his academic work was concerned with human rights in Zimbabwe.
He spoke out against forced removals from the UK of Zimbabwean asylum seekers during the crisis in Zimbabwe.
In retirement, Prof Ranger was made a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.
Ranger was born in 1929 and took his first degree and doctorate at the University of Oxford. He went to the University College of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (later Malawi) in 1957 as Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History.
Very soon, he became involved in the human rights struggle and turned himself into a historian of Africa.
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Yes, Gracious, YOUR “hatred” is destructive!
And YOU should avoid YOUR “hatred”!
The only way that you can conclude YOUR “hatred” from the post is that you are projecting YOUR “hatred”.
And you are ignorant in addition; because you have been british-brainwashed and mis-educated into thinking that the wicked white invaders have to be “hated” in order to RIGHTLY subject them to “Rule of Law” and the negative consequences that they HAVE EARNED in Africa over the generations of criminal invasion!
You think that lawmen need to YOUR “hate” to RIGHTLY bring wrongdoers to justice?
No one in right mind is going to invest emotions (positive or negative) on the invading pale devils. Like snakes, the wicked white man DOES NOT earn emotional investment. Understand?
Also, when rapists invade your loins, YOU can self-destructively “forgive” those invaders; lie back; and let the evil invaders fill your disrespected loins with their diseases and polluted seminal fluid.
Those who have NATURAL appreciation for their bodies, for their families, & for their people, they will know that invaders are to be EXPELLED/DESTROYED; because invaders bring all kinds of destructiveness to your body, to your family, to your people!
Paso deranged ranger
Criminals acre is littered with putrid rotting carcasses of retarded inbred vile pigs. It will soon be desecrated and turned into a Chinese shopping mall for stone-age herd boys like you who fornicate with goats chickens pamberi rough mob justice/regime change!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kikikiki. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha- rare !!!!!!!
Let this zoo.f anus licker rot in criminals acre
Let this zoo.f anus licker rot in criminals acre
Hatred is such a destructive force. Where does such hatred come from. Every single nation on the face of this earth has been invaded/colonised/settled and resettled at some time in their history. Why can Zimbabwe just not move on. @omugabe: may you find it in your heart to learn to forgive!
“Terrence Ranger for Heroes Acre, Zimbabweans Speak”
Yes, “Heroes Acre” … IN EUROPE!
African Ancestors SHOULD BE ALLOWED to rest in peace from even having to see the pale devils in the ‘other world’.
And so, none of the invading pale devils should be buried among Africans; because they only a cruel reminder to those in the ‘World of the Ancestors’.
Regardless of how their actions were viewed in Africa, ALL of the pale devils WERE CRIMINAL INVADERS in African Ancestral lands.
None of them were invited guests! NONE!
If criminals invade your home, and some criminals APPEAR less criminal, does that mean that they are not STILL criminal invaders in your home?
The carcasses of Europeans shouldn’t be buried on African properties. They should be discarded like the invasive trash that they are.
Mhata ya uyo adaro, imbwa historians makapusa. You think aidya chii that time. I have more info heroes acre haisi yembwa …he was a great man coz he gave a loaf of bread when you never owned kana underwear, sad you two…