{"id":25,"date":"2017-05-15T16:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:59:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2023\/04\/Parkway-1911-E-Morier-Genoud-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eric Morier-Genoud is Professor of African history at Queen&#8217;s University. The information shared on this blog results, in part, from a research project developped in the 2010s about the history of Africans and Africa at Queen&#8217;s University Belfast. I thank the support of the Alumni office, Ursula Mitchel (QUB Archives), and of former students and collaborators Oliver Carrington, Jonathan Mehaffey, and Robyn Atcheson.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:e.morier-genoud@qub.ac.uk\">e.morier-genoud@qub.ac.uk<br \/>\n<\/a>Prof. Morier-Genoud&#8217;s other research:<a href=\"https:\/\/qub.academia.edu\/EricMorierGenoud\">https:\/\/qub.academia.edu\/EricMorierGenoud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Morier-Genoud is Professor of African history at Queen&#8217;s University. The information shared on this blog results, in part, from a research project developped in the 2010s about the history of Africans and Africa at Queen&#8217;s University Belfast. I thank the support of the Alumni office, Ursula Mitchel (QUB Archives), and of former students and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa93ki-p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}