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Richard Pankhurst (academic)
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Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst (born 3 December 1927) is an academic with expertise in the study of Ethiopia.
Pankhurst was born in 1927 in Woodford Green to left communist and former suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst - already 45 years old - and Italian anarchist Silvo Corio. Sylvia later told a reporter for the British tabloid News of the World that her son was a "eugenic" baby, because he was born to two intelligent adults free from hereditary disease and untrammeled by social convention.
Pankhurst studied at Bancroft's School in Woodford, then at the London School of Economics, from which he received a doctorate in economic history, on which Harold Laski acted as an advisor.
Sylvia Pankhurst had been an active supporter of Ethiopian culture and independence since the fascist invasion in 1935, and Richard grew up knowing many Ethiopian refugees.
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Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst (born 3 December 1927) is an academic with expertise in the study of Ethiopia.
Pankhurst was born in 1927 in Woodford Green to left communist and former suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst - already 45 years old - and Italian anarchist Silvo Corio. Sylvia later told a reporter for the British tabloid News of the World that her son was a "eugenic" baby, because he was born to two intelligent adults free from hereditary disease and untrammeled by social convention.
Pankhurst studied at Bancroft's School in Woodford, then at the London School of Economics, from which he received a doctorate in economic history, on which Harold Laski acted as an advisor.
Sylvia Pankhurst had been an active supporter of Ethiopian culture and independence since the fascist invasion in 1935, and Richard grew up knowing many Ethiopian refugees. Sylvia was a friend of Haile Selassie and published Ethiopia, a Cultural History in 1955. In 1956, she and Richard moved to Ethiopia. He began working at the University College of Addis Ababa, and in 1962 was the founding director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. He also edited the Journal of Ethiopian Studies and the Ethiopia Observer.
Richard Pankhurst left the Institute and his professorship at what had become the University of Addis Ababa in 1976 after the death of Selassie and the start of the Ethiopian Civil War. He returned to England, where he became a research fellow with the School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics, before working as librarian at the Royal Asiatic Society. He returned to Ethiopia in 1986, where he resumed research with the Institute.
Richard Pankhurst led the campaign for the return of the Obelisk of Axum to Ethiopia. It was re-erected in Axum in 2008. He was granted the OBE for services to Ethiopian studies.
Family
In addition to his numerous books on Ethiopia, Richard Pankhurst has written works on his mother, including Sylvia Pankhurst: Artist and Crusader and Sylvia Pankhurst: Counsel for Ethiopia.
Richard Pankhurst, unlike his mother, is married and has a son, Alula, with whom Pankhurst has collaborated on at least one book.
External links
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