This is so awesome, it had to be shared! Cameroonian Scholar Dr. Olivette Otele Is Now the UK’s First Black Woman History Professor. WOOT! Go Olivette!

Olivette is a colonial and post-colonial expert and she has been appointed professorship and a chair in history at Bath Spa University in the UK.

This is big for her as her contributions to academia are finally being realized and acknowledged. She celebrated tweeting:

BIG NEWS: my people, @BathSpaUni has awarded me a professorship and a Chair in History.
May this open the door 2many v hard working women, especially WoC, even + specifically Black women, in academia in general & in History in particular.
In strength, peace and love my ppl.

BIG NEWS: my people, @BathSpaUni has awarded me a professorship and a Chair in History.
May this open the door 2many v hard working women, especially WoC, even + specifically Black women, in academia in general & in History in particular.
In strength, peace and love my ppl.

— Historian (@OlivetteOtele) October 22, 2018

Dr. Otele earned has a PhD in history from Universite La Sorbonne in France.

Talking to The History Vault she said:

“I wanted to work on poetry/literature but a huge sense of injustice and the need to inquire into the roots of inequality took over,”

“I was determined to make African-American historian and activist Anna Julia Cooper proud.”

Her upcoming book Afro-Europeans: A Short History will be the first academic text that dives deep into the long history of people of African descent in Europe.

To see her in all her elegance and eloquence watch below!