Alfred Babatunde 'Tunde' Zack-Williams (born September 1945, Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a British Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Research Degrees Tutor at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). He is an Africanist and a political scientist. [1] [2] [3] [4] He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Liverpool and a MSc at the University of Salford, both in sociology. His PhD thesis with the University of Sheffield was entitled Underdevelopment and Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone. Previously, Zack-Williams taught sociology at Bayero University Kano in 1979 and the University of Jos in Nigeria, and performed fieldwork research in Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. He published extensively on Sierra Leone and West Africa.
Zack-Williams held a Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin and was a Feldman Engaged Scholar at Brandeis University, US. In 2013 he received the Amistad Award for distinguished service on human rights from the Central Connecticut State University and won the ASAUK's Distinguished Africanist's Prize in 2020. [4] He was secretary and president of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Chair of the Fage and Oliver Book Prize and a long-time member of the British Academy Africa Panel. [4] Zack-Williams chaired the Granby Mental Health Community Group, [1] was a member of the editorial board of the journal Social Work Education, [2] and is a co-editor of the journal Review of African Political Economy . [5]
Zack-Williams published many journal articles, books and book chapters including: [6]