Thomas W. Africa

By Tracy Mitrano. Last week I went to Colorado to say good-bye to an important person in my life, Thomas W. Africa. Professor Africa is how I first met him. In 1981 I was a first year graduate student at Binghamton University and he was an esteemed professor of ancient history, author of a seminal article about Cesar’s assassin Brutus, “The Mask of an Assassin,” and a fine overview of Roman history, The Immense Majesty, among his other works. Read more...