Jan-Bart Gewald

Jan-Bart Gewald, PhD (1996), Leiden University is a historian and Director of the African Studies Centre Leiden. He has published on a wide range of subjects in African history and is specifically interested in the history of the social relationship between people and technology in Africa. His publications include Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political history of the Herero of Namibia 1890-1923 (James Currey, 1999) and The Speed of Change. Motor Vehicles and People in Africa, 1890-2000 (Brill, 2009), which he edited with Sabine Luning and Klaas van Walraven.