Online Event
This event is part of the International History and Politics Forum.
The International History and Politics Department warmly invites you to this International History and Politics Forum event. The International History Forum and Politics (IHPF) is a regular series of discussions convened by the International History and Politics Department at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies to discuss a variety of global questions from a multiplicity of historically-informed perspectives.
Ogechukwu Ezekwem is an Assistant Professor of History at Creighton University. Her research focuses on medical pluralism and the intersections between childbirth, culture, and religion in Nigeria during the twentieth century. Her teaching and research interests include the history of medicine in Africa and the African diaspora, early and modern Africa, Africa and the world, women's history, Atlantic history, indigenous health systems, medicine and social justice, and wartime health systems. She co-edited "Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War."