Nigel Penn

Nigel Penn is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. He has written about the impact of colonialism on the Khoisan societies of southern Africa and on the nature of early colonial society in both the Dutch and British periods. He is the co-editor of several books including Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 (with Adrien Delmas 2011), and most recently Science, Africa and Europe: Processing Information and Creating Knowledge (with Martin...See more

Nigel Penn is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. He has written about the impact of colonialism on the Khoisan societies of southern Africa and on the nature of early colonial society in both the Dutch and British periods. He is the co-editor of several books including Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 (with Adrien Delmas 2011), and most recently Science, Africa and Europe: Processing Information and Creating Knowledge (with Martin Lengwiler and Patrick Harries, 2019). Among his sole-authored books is The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's Northern Frontier in the Eighteenth Century (2005). See less