Jellicoe , Marguerite K , d 1994 , ethnologist and anthropologist

Jellicoe , Marguerite K , d 1994 , ethnologist and anthropologist

Marguerite K Jellicoe had a varied career in East Africa, during which time she worked as a Community Development Officer in the Singida District of Central Tanzania (c1962). She was later attached to the Makere University College, Kampala, Uganda, where she completed her PhD. Marguerite Jellicoe later worked for the United Nations in Zambia; and then returned to Britain to carry out her writing. She repeatedly paid visits to the Singida region, concentrating on the villages of Ihanja and Ikungi where she carried out a detailed study of the life of the local people, chronicling a community in transition, particularly the Rimi/Nyaturu.

Marguerite Jellicoe published The Long Path: a case study of social change in Wahi, Singida District, Tanzania (Nairobi, East African Publishing House, 1978). She died in May 1994.