"Diversity isn’t just having a black person here and there. It’s about where they can have some kind of influence and power, and have a say in how things should run."
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Olivette Otele
Olivette Otele (born 1970) is an historian and distinguished research professor at SOAS in London. She was previously Professor of the History of Slavery at Bristol University. She was Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society, and Chair of Bristol's Race Equality Commission. She is an expert on the links between history, memory, and geopolitics in relation to French and British colonial pasts. She is the first Black woman to be appointed to a professorial chair in History in the United Kin
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