David Olusoga

David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, writer and broadcaster. He has presented a number of historical documentaries on the BBC and contributed to The One Show and The Guardian. His historical subjects have focused on military history, race and slavery.

Arriving in the UK as an immigrant from Nigeria as a young boy, Olusoga grew up in Newcastle, one of very few non-white people living on the council estate. By the age of 14, the National Front attacked his house on more than one occasion, requiring police protection for him and his family. They were eventually forced to leave as a result of the racism. He later attended the University of Liverpool to study slavery.

Realising that black people were much less visible in the media and historically, including in the Ladybird Book of Roman Britain, Olusoga became a producer of history programmes after university, working from 2005 on programmes such as Namibia Genocide and the Second Reich, The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith and Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner. Subsequently, he became a presenter, beginning in 2014 with The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire, about the Indian, African and Asian troops who fought in the First World War, followed by several other documentaries and appearances on The One Show. In 2017, he will co-present a new series of Kenneth Clarke's 1969 programme Civilisations alongside historians Mary Beard and Simon Schama.

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