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David Olusoga (David Adetayo Olusoga) was born on 1970 in Lagos, Nigeria, is a British historian and television presenter (born 1970). Discover David Olusoga's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As David Adetayo Olusoga
Occupation Historian, writer, broadcaster, filmmaker
Age 54 years old
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Born 1970
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Birthplace Lagos, Nigeria
Nationality Nigeria

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1970

David Adetayo Olusoga (born January 1970 ) is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and filmmaker.

He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester.

He has presented historical documentaries on the BBC and contributed to The One Show and The Guardian.

David Olusoga was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a Nigerian father and British mother.

At five years old, Olusoga migrated to the UK with his mother and grew up in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

He was one of a very few non-white people living on a council estate.

By the time he was 14, the National Front had attacked his house on more than one occasion, requiring police protection for him and his family.

They were eventually forced to leave as a result of the racism.

1994

He later attended the University of Liverpool to study the history of slavery, and in 1994, graduated with a BA (Hons) History degree, followed by a postgraduate course in broadcast journalism at Leeds Trinity University.

1999

Olusoga began his television career as a researcher on the 1999 BBC series Western Front.

2005

He became a producer of history programmes after university, working from 2005 on programmes such as Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich, The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith and Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner?.

2010

Olusoga is the 39th person to receive the medal, which has been awarded since 2010, and recognises services to the humanities and social sciences.

2014

Subsequently he became a television presenter, beginning in 2014 with The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire, about the Indian, African and Asian troops who fought in the First World War, followed by other documentaries and appearances on BBC One television's The One Show.

2015

In 2015, it was announced that he would co-present Civilisations, a sequel to Lord Clark's 1969 television documentary series Civilisation, alongside the historians Mary Beard and Simon Schama.

His most recent TV series include Black and British: A Forgotten History, The World's War, A House Through Time and the BAFTA award-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners.

Olusoga has written stand-alone history books, as well as those accompanying his television series.

His other books include The World’s War, which won First World War Book of the Year in 2015, The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism (2011) which he co-authored with Casper Erichsen, and Civilisations (2018).

2016

He is the author of the 2016 book Black and British: A Forgotten History, which was awarded both the Longman–History Today Trustees Award 2017 and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017.

2018

He contributed to the Oxford Companion to Black British History, and has written for The Guardian, The Observer, New Statesman and BBC History magazine; since June 2018 he has been a member of the board of the Scott Trust, which publishes The Guardian.

2019

Olusoga was included in the 2019 and 2020 editions of the Powerlist, a ranking of the 100 most influential Black Britons, and in the 2021 edition he made the Top 10 most influential, ranking eighth.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to history and to community integration.

He received his medal from King Charles III in February 2023.

On appointing him as a professor in 2019, the University of Manchester described him as an expert on military history, empire, race and slavery, and "one of the UK's foremost historians".

Olusoga gave his inaugural professorial lecture on "Identity, Britishness and the Windrush" at the University of Manchester in May 2019.

In response to the global Black Lives Matter movement with protests after the murder of George Floyd, Olusoga's Black and British: A Forgotten History was re-broadcast, along with Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners, also fronted by Olusoga.

2020

On 13 November 2020, the BBC announced that it had commissioned Barack Obama Talks To David Olusoga, a special programme in which Barack Obama discusses the first volume of his presidential memoirs, A Promised Land.

The programme aired on 19 January 2021.

In January 2021, Olusoga appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

In December 2021, it was announced that Olusoga had been awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy.