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Congratulations to Dr Ngozi Blessing Edeagu
The IAS congratulates Dr Ngozi Blessing Edeagu on receiving the Award of the City of Bayreuth!
Lord Mayor Thomas Ebersberger once again presented the City of Bayreuth Prize during this year’s President’s Dinner. The award honoured Dr Ngozi Blessing Edeagu for her outstanding dissertations.
Honouring the achievement
Dr Ngozi Blessing Edeagu received the award for her dissertation, which contributes to the historiography of Nigeria's decolonisation. The title of her work is “Coalition and Competition in the West African Pilot: The Elite Capture of Nigerian Decolonisation (1937–1960)”. Her research was supervised by Prof. Dr Joël Glasman, at the Chair of African History as part of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS).