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Award of the City of Bayreuth for BIGSAS Alumni Dr Ngozi Blessing Edeagu
Lord Mayor Thomas Ebersberger once again presented the City of Bayreuth Prize during this year’s President’s Dinner. The award honoured Dr Ngozi Blessing Edeagu, Dr Sabine Netz, and Dr Marius Schöttle for their outstanding dissertations.
Dr Ngozi Blessing Edeagu received the award for her dissertation, which contributes to the historiography of Nigeria's decolonisation. The title of her work is “Coalition and Competition in the West African Pilot: The Elite Capture of Nigerian Decolonisation (1937–1960)”.
Her research was supervised by Prof. Dr Joël Glasman at the Chair of African History as part of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS).
For more information about the event see: Presidents Dinner