Olivette Otele

Olivette Otele PhD, FRHistS is a Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of enslavement at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Historical Society. Professor Otele holds a PhD from Université Paris-La Sorbonne, France. Her area of research is colonial and post-colonial History and the histories of people of African descent. She was the recipient of several prestigious national and international research grants (UK, European Commission, France).

She is a regular contributor to the press, television and radio programmes (BBC, Sky News, Guardian, Sunday Times, Elle Magazine, GQ, Vogue Italia, Huffington Post, New Yorker, Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, etc).