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Reid-Maroney, N, Bell, A, Brooks, N, Otele, O and White, R (2019) 'From 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' to “Countering Colston”: slavery and memory in a transatlantic undergraduate research project.' International Public History, 2 (1). 020190006.

Otele, O (2019) 'The guerrilla arts in Brexit Bristol.' In: Ward, S and Rasch, A, eds. Embers of empire in Brexit Britain. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 133-142. ISBN 9781350113794 Please click the title to check availability.

Otele, O (2018) '“Liberté, égalité, fraternité”: debunking the myth of egalitarianism in French education.' In: Cupples, J and Grosfoguel, R, eds. Unsettling Eurocentrism in the westernized university. Routledge, London. Please click the title to check availability.

Otele, O (2018) 'Colston: what can Britain learn from France?' In: Chantiluke, R, Kwoba, B and Nkopo, A, eds. Rhodes Must Fall: the struggle to decolonise the racist heart of empire. Written by the Rhodes Must Fall Movement, Oxford. Zed Books, London. ISBN 9781786993908

Otele, O (2018) Afro-European experiences: from the third century to the third millennium. In: Centre for Imperial and Global History Annual Lecture, 4 May 2018, University of Exeter, UK.

Sullivan, S, Baussant, M, Dodd, L, Otele, O and Dos Santos, I (2017) Disrupted histories, recovered pasts: a cross-disciplinary analysis and cross-case synthesis of oral histories and history in post-conflict and postcolonial contexts. 'Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts' Working Paper No.1. ISBN 9781911126065

Otele, O (2017) 'History of slavery, sites of memory, and identity politics in contemporary Britain.' In: Gueye, A and Michel, J, eds. A stain on our past: slavery and memory. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, USA, pp. 189-210. ISBN 9781569025802 Please click the title to check availability.

Otele, O (2017) Migratory flows, colonial encounters and the histories of transatlantic slavery. In: Seminar Series - Migration To, Through and From Africa: An African Conversation, 25 January 2017, International Migration Institute, Oxford, UK.

Otele, O (2017) Trade, diplomacy and slavery: British and French tumultuous relationships (1698-1848). In: 46th Annual Conference British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (BSECS), 4 - 6 January 2017, St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK.

Otele, O (2016) Mourning in reluctant sites of memory: from Afrophobia to cultural productivity. In: NIOD Lecture Series, September 2016, Institute for War, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Otele, O (2016) On codifying Afro-European trajectories. In: The Afropean Narratives 1600-2066, 15 July 2016, V&A, London, UK.

Burton, E, Dresser, M, Greenacre, F and Otele, O (2016) Talking Colston: memory, commemoration and Bristol's slave legacy. In: The BIRTHA Annual Debates, 5 May 2016, The Station, Bristol, UK.

Otele, O (2015) Should they stay or should they go? Calais, a beacon of hope for black migrants and a useful ‘New heart of darkness’ for Brexit? In: Blackness in Britain 2015: 'The Black Special Relationship' - African American Scholarship and its Impact on Black Intellectual Life in Britain, 30 -31 October 2015, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK.

Otele, O (2015) History of slavery, sites of memory and identity politics in contemporary Britain. In: The States of the Memory of Slavery: International Comparative Perspectives, 22-23 October 2015, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris.

Otele, O (2015) Re-branding the trauma of slavery, or how to pacify the masses with sites of memory [blog post]. Discover Society, 21.

Otele, O (2015) Abolition, humanitarianism and colonialism: an investigation into 'Britain's island stories'. In: 42nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, 6-8 March 2015, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Otele, O (2014) Cultural politics of memory and slavery: from trauma sites to dark tourism. In: History and Public Memorialization of Slavery and the Slave Trade: Liverpool – Nantes, 2-3 July 2014, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool.

Otele, O (2014) 'Resisting imperial governance in Canada: from trade and religious kinship to black narrative pedagogy in Ontario.' In: Reid-Maroney, N, Wright, H and Ebanda De B'béri, B, eds. The promised land : history and historiography of the Black experience in Chatham-Kent's settlements and beyond. African and diasporic studies . University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 131-148. ISBN 9781442647176

Otele, O (2013) Power and political culture: British and French abolitionism in the nineteenth century. In: Royal Historical society symposium: intimacy, power and authority in European perspectives, 18 October 2013, Bath Spa University, Corsham Court.

Otele, O (2012) 'Bristol, slavery and the politics of representation: the Slave Trade Gallery in the Bristol Museum.' Social Semiotics, 22 (2). pp. 155-172.

Otele, O and Latrache, R (2011) 'Does discrimination shape identity? Identity politics and minorities in the English-speaking world and in France: rhetoric and reality [guest editors].' Journal of Intercultural Studies, 32 (3). pp. 199-207.

Otele, O (2010) 'Dependance, pouvoir et identite ou les ambiguites de la 'camerounicite'.' In: Makhily, G, ed. 50 ans après, quelle indépendance pour l'Afrique? Philippe Rey, Paris, pp. 467-482. ISBN 9782848761565

Otele, O (2009) Abolition in Canada in the 19th century: Chatham, a mirage or a promised land in southern Ontario? In: International Conference: Les effets de l'abolition de la traite par la Grande Bretagne sur les discours nationaux, 11 - 13 June 2009, Paris.

Otele, O (2009) 'British slavers against abolition.' Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique, XV (1). pp. 161-175.

Otele, O (2009) Contextualising British influence on new settlement in the 19th century. In: Promised Land 2nd Annual General Symposium, 13 - 15 March 2009, Chatham-Kent, Canada.

Otele, O (2009) 'Liverpool dans la traite transatlantique : Imperatifs et pratiques des peres de la cite.' In: Saunier, E, ed. Villes portuaires du commerce triangulaire à l'abolition de l'esclavage. Cahiers de l'histoire et des mémoires de la traite négrière, de l'esclavage et de leurs abolitions en Normandie, 1 . Routes du philanthrope, Cléon, pp. 57-70.

Otele, O (2008) 'Religion and slavery: a powerful weapon for pro-slavery and abolitionist campaigners.' In: Prum, M and Le Jeune, F, eds. Le Debat sur l'abolition de l'esclavage en Grande Bretagne, 1787-1840. Editions Ellipses, Paris, pp. 89-102. ISBN 9782729840327

Otele, O (2008) 'Within and outside Western feminism and grand narratives : Cameroonian women’s sites of resistance.' In: Piquet, M, ed. Nationalism(s), post-nationalism(s) : Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire. Presses de Paris-Dauphine, Paris, pp. 119-129.

Otele, O (2008) 'Bridewealth and power: the struggle of Edwondo women against a few traditional praxes in Cameroon.' Cultures of the Commonwealth, 14. pp. 27-36.

Otele, O (2008) Histoire de l'esclavage britannique : des origines de la traite transatlantique aux premisses de la colonisation. M. Houdiard, Paris. ISBN 9782912673909

Otele, O (2008) 'Les ports de Bristol et Liverpool et la traite Atlantique.' Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire (11).

Otele, O (2008) 'Multiculturalisme et régionalisme : les apories d’une identité britannique au pays de Galles.' In: Whitton, T, ed. Le New Labour et l'identite britannique. Observatoire de la société britannique, pp. 49-64. ISBN 2-9526-375-4-7

Otele, O (2008) A paradigm shift of the nonconformist ethos or the practicality of dogma in Ontario, Canada. In: Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade: telling the story, 21 - 23 February 2008, The College of the Bahamas, Nassau.

Otele, O (2007) The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum: remembering the good, the bad and the ugly. In: Post-colonial ghosts, 8 - 10 November 2007, Universite Paul Valerie, Montpellier III, France..

Otele, O (2007) Religion in slave narratives. In: The Promised Land Project: 1st General Symposium, 7 - 9 December 2007, Chatham-Kent, Ontario Canada.

Otele, O (2007) 'Scientific racism: a bi-product of the slave trade?' In: Teulié, G, ed. Science and race. Les carnets du Cerpac (5). Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, Montpellier, pp. 435-455. ISBN 9782842697945

Otele, O (2007) 'Seamen in Bristol and the lure of slaving voyages.' In: Lurdos, M and Misrahi-Barak, J, eds. Transport(s) in the British Empire and the Commonwealth = Transport(s) dans l'Empire Britannique et le Commonwealth. Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier, Montpellier, pp. 145-156. ISBN 9782842697679

Otele, O (2006) Great Britain and France: the dilemma of remembering and forgetting. In: Crossroads in cultural studies, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

Otele, O (2006) 'Ouganda et l'armée de Résistance du Seigneur ou les implications politiques et religieuses d'une "guerre sante" en Afrique noire.' In: Teulié, G, ed. Religious Writings and War in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth. Les carnets du Cerpac (3). Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, pp. 369-389. ISBN 9782842697341

Otele, O (2005) 'Bristol et le commerce triangulaire : schizophrenie et enjeux de la memoire collective.' In: Hanquart-Turner, E, ed. Violence d'État, parole libératrice et colonialisme. Editions A3, Ivry-sur-Seine, pp. 69-84. ISBN 9782844360953

Otele, O (2005) The cities of Bristol, Nantes and Bordeaux: three different ways of dealing with the collective memory related to the triangular trade. In: British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Oxford University.

Otele, O (2004) Bristol and Newport, two British cities challenging racism in a time of war. In: Crossroads in Cultural Studies Fifth International Conference, 25 June - 28 June 2004, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

Otele, O (2004) Bristol, England and the abolition of slavery: when collective memory is in question. In: Ethnic Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.