Hassoum Ceesay's research interests are African colonial and post-colonial history, especially through biographies of women and political leaders, chiefs in British colonial rule, and heritage conservation and interpretation, to bring to the centre those assigned to the margins of Gambian history.
The history of education, science and medicine in Europe 1500-1914; the social history of knowledge creation and diffusion; the history of childhood
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