John Kegel
John Kegel is a guest researcher at the ASCL. He specialises in African military and economic history from roughly 1850 to the present. His PhD (2020), completed under the supervision of Dr Giacomo Macola, on the Rwandan struggle for Liberation (1990-1994) looks at the civil war which preceded and ended the genocide of 1994. Besides extensive archival research it is based on interviews with veterans of the war collected during six months of fieldwork in Rwanda. His research has culminated in the book The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994 (Ohio University Press, 2025).
Between 2022 and 2024 John worked at the ASCL on research sponsored by the Ford Foundation, focusing on the history of colonial concessionary companies in sub-Saharan Africa between roughly 1880-1960. Previously, John worked or taught at the University of Kent, the London School of Economics and London Business School.
He is a lecturer at the Netherlands Defence Academy.
He is a lecturer at the Netherlands Defence Academy.
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Dr. J.B. Kegel's profile on the Leiden University website
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Dr. J.B. Kegel's profile on the Leiden University website
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The struggle for liberation: a history of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994 (2025)
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The struggle for liberation: a history of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2025
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