Roy Doron
@konstrukt.bsky.social
Historian of Africa, Founding Editor of the Journal of African Military History.
Currently CD Spangler Distinguished Professor of African/African American History at Winston-Salem State University.
Lifelong West Ham Supporter.
Lover of Metal.
Currently CD Spangler Distinguished Professor of African/African American History at Winston-Salem State University.
Lifelong West Ham Supporter.
Lover of Metal.
My new book, Biafra: A Military History is coming out on MONDAY.
If you order from this link, use the following 30% discount codes:
UF2530 for orders in the Americas
IUP30 for orders outside of the Americas
If you order from this link, use the following 30% discount codes:
UF2530 for orders in the Americas
IUP30 for orders outside of the Americas
Biafra
The Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), also known as the Biafran War, remains one of the most politically charged and divisive issues in contemporary Nigerian...
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August 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My new book, Biafra: A Military History is coming out on MONDAY.
If you order from this link, use the following 30% discount codes:
UF2530 for orders in the Americas
IUP30 for orders outside of the Americas
If you order from this link, use the following 30% discount codes:
UF2530 for orders in the Americas
IUP30 for orders outside of the Americas
Oliver Coates from Cambridge University speaking at the conference on Military Leadership in African History at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
July 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Oliver Coates from Cambridge University speaking at the conference on Military Leadership in African History at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
Harry Raffal from the @rafmuseum.bsky.social speaking at the Military Leadership in African History at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
July 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Harry Raffal from the @rafmuseum.bsky.social speaking at the Military Leadership in African History at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
When I get these requests, I reply that without a documented reason, I am required to give everyone the same treatment. But it is maddening.
But these requests come in more frequently and later in the term than they ever did before.
But these requests come in more frequently and later in the term than they ever did before.
Opinion | When Students Want You to Change Their Grades
They say “it never hurts to ask.” But it does.
www.chronicle.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
When I get these requests, I reply that without a documented reason, I am required to give everyone the same treatment. But it is maddening.
But these requests come in more frequently and later in the term than they ever did before.
But these requests come in more frequently and later in the term than they ever did before.
This new mantra of meeting students where they has gone a bit too far toward enabling the inmates to run the asylum.
Opinion | Meet Students Where They Are? Maybe Not.
Lax standards will void the value of a college education.
www.chronicle.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This new mantra of meeting students where they has gone a bit too far toward enabling the inmates to run the asylum.
Must be nice to be financially secure enough to resign in protest and not worry where your next meal will come from.
A military ethicist resigns in protest. From @radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Military-Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded that she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Must be nice to be financially secure enough to resign in protest and not worry where your next meal will come from.
At the MHC conference at @ISCTE in Lisbon.
June 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
At the MHC conference at @ISCTE in Lisbon.
At the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy in Kew, looking at the records for the three African divisions that fought in Burma as part of the 14th army. This is the first clear mention of Seth Anthony, a Ghanaian who was the first African to become an officer in the British Army.
March 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
At the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy in Kew, looking at the records for the three African divisions that fought in Burma as part of the 14th army. This is the first clear mention of Seth Anthony, a Ghanaian who was the first African to become an officer in the British Army.
Had a good time at #ASA2024 #africanstudies.
My new book on the #nigeria #biafra #civilwar is on the way and you can pre-order it on Amazon or wherever you get your books.
My new book on the #nigeria #biafra #civilwar is on the way and you can pre-order it on Amazon or wherever you get your books.
December 16, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Had a good time at #ASA2024 #africanstudies.
My new book on the #nigeria #biafra #civilwar is on the way and you can pre-order it on Amazon or wherever you get your books.
My new book on the #nigeria #biafra #civilwar is on the way and you can pre-order it on Amazon or wherever you get your books.
My new book on the history of the Nigerian Civil War has a cover and is now available to pre-order on Amazon.
Very excited to have completed this important work.
Very excited to have completed this important work.
December 6, 2024 at 11:37 PM
My new book on the history of the Nigerian Civil War has a cover and is now available to pre-order on Amazon.
Very excited to have completed this important work.
Very excited to have completed this important work.
Happy to announce that the new issue of the Journal of African Military History has been sent to print. This is a special issue about the Southern African experience during World War II and should be available on our website soon.
Journal of African Military History | Brill
Journal of African Military History | Brill
August 7, 2023 at 3:42 PM
Happy to announce that the new issue of the Journal of African Military History has been sent to print. This is a special issue about the Southern African experience during World War II and should be available on our website soon.
Journal of African Military History | Brill
Journal of African Military History | Brill