Kevin Shillington is a teacher and a freelance historian based in Dorset, England, United Kingdom.

Education

He graduated from Trinity College, located in Dublin, Ireland, with a major in modern history in 1968. Shillington did his postgraduate teacher training at the University of Zambia, located in Lusaka, Zambia. He holds a MA and PhD in African history from the University of London.

Career

Shillington taught History and English at Secondary School in Zambia in the early 1970s. During the early 1980s, he trained history teachers at the University of Botswana, whose main campus is located in Gaborone, Botswana. From the mid-1980s he has been a freelance historian and biographer, specializing mostly in African History.