Biography

I am a historian of modern Africa and the African diaspora. Regionally, my research focuses on West Africa. I am interested in the everyday history of ordinary people and marginal colonial spaces in late colonial Nigeria. I completed a PhD in African History at West Virginia University's Department of History, where I was a Rebecca Donnelly and Henry Thornburg Research Fellow. In 2023, I was a fellow of the National World War II Museum's summer fellowship at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and the Society for Military History, New Orleans. At WVU, I was an instructor of record. I taught Africana Studies and World History courses to undergraduate students.

I am reimagining and revising my dissertation into a book manuscript, which examines Nigerian veterans through the lens of colonial welfare policies—focusing on the postwar life and experiences of Nigerian World War II Veterans, the war-disabled veterans, their wives, and households. Thematically, it is at the intersection of British imperialism, war and society, masculinity and gender, the African diaspora, decolonization, the end of empire, and Colonial Welfare Development (CWD) in Africa. My original article and book review publications have appeared in reputable peer-reviewed journals. I teach courses in African, World, and World War II history.

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