Robin Derricourt
- Affiliation: University of New South Wales
Robin Derricourt is Conjoint Associate Professor in History at the University of New South Wales. His career has included archaeology teaching and fieldwork, heritage administration, and editorial responsibilities for book publishing programmes in history, African studies and archaeology. As author his books include Ideas into Books, An Author’s Guide to Scholarly Publishing, Man on the Kafue, People of the Lakes and (with C. Saunders) Beyond the Cape Frontier.
Books by Robin Derricourt
Inventing Africa
History, Archaeology and Ideas
Robin Derricourt
Inventing Africa is a critical account of narratives which have selectively interpreted and misinterpreted the continent’s deep past. Writers have created alluring images of lost cities, vast prehistoric migrations and golden ages of past civilisations. Debates continue on the African origins of humankind, the contributions of ancient Egypt to the world and Africa’s importance to global history. Images of ‘Africa’, simplifying a complex and diverse continent, have existed… (more information)