David Olusoga
Historian, broadcaster and film-maker
David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian and BAFTA-winning film-maker who holds a public history professorship in Manchester. He wrote Black and British.
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British Born 1970 in Lagos, Nigeria
About David Olusoga
David Olusoga is a historian, writer and broadcaster of British-Nigerian background. At the University of Manchester he is a professor of public history, and he has won a BAFTA as a film-maker. He has presented history programs for the BBC, including A House Through Time, and wrote and presented the television series Black & British: A Forgotten History. His book Black and British was published in 2016. Among his earlier books are The World’s War (2014), which received the First World War Book of the Year prize, and The Kaiser’s Holocaust (2010). He also writes a column for The Observer and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society.