Wayne Dooling Author & Editor

Marie Rodet is Reader in the History of Africa at SOAS. Her research focuses on modern African history, gender history, slavery and emancipation, public history, gamification and digital humanities. Her publications include Les migrantes ignorées du Haut-Sénégal, 1900-1946 (2009), Essai d’histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara (with Elara Bertho, 2020). She has also developed public-facing digital projects such as the documentary film The Diambourou: Slavery and Emancipation in Kayes – Mali (2014), the web documentary Bouillagui: A Free Village (with Cosmo Maximin, 2020), the animation film Tous Égaux!/All Equal! (2023) and the digital mobile game USAWA (2023).

Lotte Pelckmans is an anthropologist based at University of Copenhagen, working on the intersection between (post-)slavery and migration in (francophone) West Africa and its diasporas. Her projects and documentary films have explored anti-slavery activism and fugitive displacements in contemporary post-slavery contexts where Africa's internal slave past reverberates. More generally she analyses the haunting of narratives of slavery in contemporary moral regimes of (legal) representation, citizenship, and resistance.

Wayne Dooling is a Senior Lecturer in African History at SOAS, University of London. His publications include Law and Community in a Slave Society (1992) and Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa (2007).

Esteban Salas is a Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research centers on West Central African precolonial and colonial societies and the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. His publications include contributions on the volumes African Women in the Atlantic World, Property, Vulnerability and Mobility, 1660-1880;Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History; and the journals African Economic History and Slavery & Abolition.