About Us
Dr Roger van Zwanenberg
Dr Roger van Zwanenberg has had three lives, first as an African academic historian from 1969 to 1975; and second as a Book Publisher from 1976 to 2012. He is now in retirement and is the Founder of the Pluto Educational Trust, a charity; Ollema Ltd, which supports small farmers in Uganda; and Pluto Journals, a scholarly list of diverse internationally-based Journals.
In his first life, he taught at the Universities of Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and wrote books and articles; then in 1976 Roger founded Zed Press; in 1986, he bought Pluto Books from the liquidator, and on retirement in 2012 he expanded his portfolio of interests into charitable work and academic journals.