Dr. Myles Osborne on NATO, Neo-Colonialism, and the Cold War in Africa.

Wednesday, February 5 at 1:30-3:00 p.m. in the Boulder Creek Room of the Boulder Public Library, our featured presenter was Dr. Myles Osborne, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at CU Boulder. The title of Professor Osborne’s presentation was “NATO, Neo-Colonialism, and the Cold War in Africa.”

Myles Osborne received his PhD from Harvard University in 2008 and has been a member of the CU faculty since that time. His research specialty is colonialism and imperialism in Africa and the Caribbean, and he is the author of four books and numerous articles on these topics. Since 2004, he has lived, worked, and traveled in 30 countries on the African continent including hitchhiking 10,000 miles from south to north in 2014. A sample of recent publications includes:

Myles Osborne, ed., Making Martial Races: Warfare, Gender, and Society in African History (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2024).

 Myles Osborne, “Rites, Rights, Rastafari! Statehood and Statecraft in Jamaica, c. 1930-1961,” Journal of Social History 55, 1 (2021), 207-225.

Myles Osborne, “‘Mau Mau are Angels… Sent by Haile Selassie’: A Kenyan War in Jamaica,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 62, 4 (2020), 714-744.