Richard Seymour Hall

Who is Richard Seymour Hall?

Richard Seymour Hall was a British journalist and historian, writing about Africa.

He was born in Margate, and spent several years of his childhood with this father in Australia. He attended the Hastings Grammar School, and received an honours degree from Keble College, Oxford.

He worked first for the Daily Mail in London, and then went to Norther Rhodesia where he was co-founder and editor of the African Mail with Alexander Scott. After Zambia's independence, he became editor of the Times of Zambia owned by Tiny Rowland. In 1967 he returned to England as African correspondent of The Observer, and was a proponent of its ultimately unsuccessful fight for independence. In 1986, after failing to become the editor of The Observer when it was purchased by Rowland, he founded his own financial and political bulletin Africa Analysis.