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Ngozi Edeagu

Research Fellow

History of Africa
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig

Abstract

Ngozi Edeagu is currently working on a spatialization project that redirects attention from African intellectual activities conducted in universities or other research spaces overseas to the African continent. At the same time, she is seeking to understand how alternative ideas of space were shaped, developed or modified overseas. Her research, thus, centres on how African spatial entrepreneurs trained overseas from the golden age of independence (1960s) imagined or reimagined territorial spaces from institutional settings.





Professional career

  • since 01/2024
    Academic Researcher, ReCent Globe, University of Leipzig, Germany
  • 04/2019 - 07/2019
    Independent (Research) Contractor, Operations Lights Out (Ontario, Canada)
  • 07/2015 - 09/2019
    Lecturer, Department of History and Strategic Studies, Alex Ekwueme Federal University (AE-FUNAI), Nigeria (on study leave since October 2019)
  • 07/2015 - 06/2016
    Research Fellow, African Centre for Innovation, Leadership and Development, Abuja, Nigeria
  • 05/2012 - 01/2014
    Head of Administration, FAMAKS International School, Abuja, Nigeria

Education

  • 10/2019 - 03/2024
    Graduated with PhD in History (summa cum laude) from the University of Bayreuth
  • 09/2020 - 12/2020
    Visiting Post-Graduate Researcher, School of History, Queen Mary University of London, England
  • 09/2007 - 07/2009
    Master of Science in African Studies, University of Oxford
  • 01/1997 - 03/2001
    Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in History (First Class Honors), University of Nigeria