Writer and Historian

Bronwen is the author of Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance. Her previous books include Not Made by Slaves and Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

You can read her essays, reviews, and articles on a wide range of historical topics in Foreign Policy, the TLS, Smithsonian Magazine, and BBC History Magazine and hear her on Thoughtlines, History Extra, and BBC Radio Four’s In Our Time. In addition to her writing, she is the reviews editor of The Historical Journal.

Bronwen was a fellow of Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge from 2015 and was the Director of Cambridge’s Centre of African Studies. In August, she joined the faculty of the Princeton Writing Program. She is a visiting fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past, in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosh University.