For more information about this event, please contact Eric Allina, Chair, Department of History.

African Roots in the First World War
Soldiers of African descent played key roles on all sides of the First World War, including as conscripts facing pressure to perform military service and as volunteers drawn in for various reasons. Sean Foyn explores how the First World War was rooted in national and imperial conceptions of African peoples, the wealth of Africa, and how people of African descent imagined themselves in the global conflict.

Sean Foyn
AfriCanadian Searchers
Sean Foyn is a happily unapologetic history geek who cannot remember a time when he wasn’t listening to storytellers, reading history, visiting historic sites, and researching and sharing what he has learned. An active member of Black History Ottawa, Foyn was a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Government of Canada’s Apology for the Treatment of Number Two Construction Battalion and has researched and produced a number of public history projects that illuminate the Black experience in Canada.
This event will be exclusively offered in English, and is also offered virtually.