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Olisa joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.
This study aims to examine the wartime relations between Germany and the Allied powers in their colonial territories of West Africa during the Second World War (1939-1945). It specifically deals with the wartime status and treatment of Germans (traders, professionals, researchers and
missionaries) and their properties (firms, estates, factories, missions, patents and trade mark) in British West Africa during World War II, with a special emphasis on Nigeria, including Cameroon under the British mandate.
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Olisa Godson Muojama
Olisa joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.
German Subjects and Properties in Colonial West Africa during World War II, 1939-1945
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17 March 2025
Heidi is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) and associate professor, jointly appointed at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and History at the University of British Columbia. Heidi received her BA (Hons) in modern and medieval languages with a double first from Cambridge University and earned her PhD in history from Harvard University. She is an award-winning researcher of media, communications, health, platform governance and international organisations.
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Fabienne is a professor of film studies at the University of Zurich. In her current research, she is particularly interested in moving-image practises that critically engage with the exclusions and inclusions in the institutional frames of global arts and media. Her research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, examines how formats have contributed to the establishment of global infrastructures of film exhibition, and it addresses what they have disabled and displaced.
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Sebestian is a historian of early modern natural sciences and medicine in global contexts. He is a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Sebestian’s research seeks to uncover the variety of agencies across cultures, genders and social status involved in the making of knowledge amid the early modern expansion of global interactions, which engendered the birth of medicine, science and the modern world. He has published on indigenous tattooing in the Philippines, long-distance networks of knowledge exchange, Renaissance geography and gorillas, and on science and islands in Indo-Pacific worlds.
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David is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. David was born in Britain and educated at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University. Before moving to Harvard in 2004, he taught for 11 years at Columbia University. A prize-winning teacher and writer, he has lectured on six continents and has held research fellowships and visiting positions in Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, South Korea and the United States.
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