Onyeka Nubia
Onyeka Nubia
Onyeka Nubia is a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham [1]
Biography
Onyeka Nubia is one of the best and a pioneering and internationally recognised historian, writer and presenter who is reinventing the perceptions of the Renaissance, British history, Black Studies and intersectionalism.
Furthermore,**** he is the leading historian on the status and origins of Africans in pre-colonial England from antiquity to 1603. He has developed entirely new strands of British history which includes Africans in Ancient and Medieval England. He is also an expert on diversity in Tudor, Stuart, Georgian and Edwardian England/Britain.
He has helped academia and the general public to an entirely new perspective on otherness, colonialism, Imperialism and the Black British contribution to World Wars I and II.
Similarly, he began his research on contemporary British history, and is an authority on: anti-colonial movements and Pan Africanism.
Onyeka is a Visiting Research Fellow at Edgehill and Huddersfield Universities and the Director of Studies at Narrative Eye.
He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards.
He has written over forty articles on Englishness, Britishness and historical method and they have appeared in the most popular UK historical magazines and periodicals including History Today and BBC History Magazine.
Onyeka is an internationally renowned speaker and has been a keynote presenter at venues such as the Houses of Parliament, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland.
He has also been a keynote presenter at universities throughout the UK and the USA, including SOAS, University of London, Vanderbilt University (USA), Georgia State and Clarke Atlanta Universities (USA).
Research Interest
Due to his diligence, In the 1980's and 1990's Onyeka's research interests were focused on post-colonial concepts such as 'the abnegation and alienation of self,' and 'how Black self-hate became a fashionable fetish.'
He is now currently interested in exploring 'Black agency in revolt.' He was a pioneer in movements to mainstream the history of people of African descent such as: Mary Seacole, Olaudah Equiano and Walter Tull.
These movements led to greater inclusiveness in the National Curriculum.
Education
He obtained his MA in Historyfrom the University of Nottingham
He also acquired his Ph.D
from the University of Nottingham