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Sir Martin Ewans, KCMG

Sir Martin joined the Commonwealth Relations Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) in 1952, and retired in 1988. After serving in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, he was for three years Deputy High Commissioner and Head of Chancery in Tanzania. From there, he went to London as Head of the East African Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where he was responsible for relations not only with Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, but also with Zaire, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Mauritius and the Seychelles. After four years in India as Minister at the British High Commission in New Delhi, Sir Martin was again in Africa in the 1980s, first as High Commissioner in Zimbabwe shortly after its Independence, and finally as High Commissioner in Nigeria. In 1994 he was a UN Monitor at the South African General Election. He is Vice-President of the Britain-Nigeria Association and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

He has published:

• Afghanistan, A New History (Curzon, 2001, reprint 2002).
• Afghanistan, A Short History of its People and Politics (HarperCollins, 2002).
• European Atrocity, African Catastrophe: Leopold II, the Congo Free State and its Aftermath (RoutledgeCurzon, 2002).
• The Great Game: Britain and Russia in Central Asia (Editor) (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).
• Conflict in Afghanistan: Studies in Asymmetric Warfare (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005).
• Great Power Rivalry in Central Asia, 1842-1880 (Editor) (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005).