Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870–1990: Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance

Leila Koivunen is Professor in European and World History at the University of Turku. She is a specialist in the history of intercultural knowledge formation, especially between Africa and Europe. She has studied, for instance, practices of visualising Africa and the history of collecting and exhibiting African artefacts in Europe.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5869-2949

Raita Merivirta, PhD, currently works as university lecturer in English literature at Åbo Akademi University. She holds the title of docent in English philology, especially in postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Merivirta’s main research interests include colonial and postcolonial literature and film and the history of Nordic and British colonialism.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8396-1098