Manuel Barcia's research interests include nineteenth-century Atlantic and Global History; Piracy, Slavery and the Slave Trade; African History in Africa and the Diaspora; Warfare, Resistance and Rebellion; Imperialism, Abolition and Colonialism; and Medicine and Disease.
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.
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