Olivette Otele
2021 International Booker Prize Judge
- Prizes judged
Olivette Otele is a Distinguished Research Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS University of London
Otele holds a Ph.D. from La Sorbonne and received an Honorary Degree from Concordia University, Canada. She was a judge of the International Booker Prize and a visiting Chair at the College de France.
She is a broadcaster (Netflix, BBC Radio and TV). Her book African Europeans was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the LA Times Book Prize.
She advises policymakers and NGOs on Colonial History and restorative justice (for example, Welsh Government Audit on Slavery and Colonialism, and the Guardian‘s Cotton Capital).