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Stanlake Samkange

Died in 1988

Stanlake Samkange was born in 1922 in Zvimba, in Mashonaland, the son of a Methodist pastor involved in nationalist politics, and himself took part in the nationalist movements of the fifties and sixties. A historian and educator, he founded with his wife, the American Tommie Anderson, a secondary school that opened in 1962. A doctor of Indiana University and a journalist, he taught African history at several American universities, returned to his country in 1978 and died in 1988.

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