Olivette Otele
French historian · France · On the map · Writers · Born 1970 · age 56
Olivette Otele FLSW is a historian and distinguished research professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS University of London. She is a Fellow and a former Vice President of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
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She was previously professor of the history of slavery at Bristol University, and she chaired Bristol's Race Equality Commission. She is an expert on the links between history, memory, and geopolitics in relation to French and British colonial pasts. Otele is the first Black woman to be appointed to a professorial chair in History in the United Kingdom.
