Dr. Imbua David Lishilinimle

MBBS (Sydney), FRACS (Paediatric Surgery)

Dr David L. IMBUA is an award-winning academic attached to the Department of History and International Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria. He was the overall best graduating student in 2001/2002 session in the University of Calabar, a feat which earned him an offer of automatic employment by the University as Graduate Assistant. He was the winner of Nigerian Breweries Plc & NYSC Prize for the best writer in 2003 when he did his National Youth Service in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. He steadily progressed through the academic ladder and was promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer in 2015. Dr Imbua has been teaching and contributing to the graduation of students in the University. He has successfully supervised and co-supervised over six graduate students in the University. He has been quite outstanding in his scholarly contributions and outputs. He has been a regular participant in many academic conferences, seminars, workshops and symposia around the world. He has also organized a number of international conferences which have, over the years, attracted scholars from various continents of the world to the University of Calabar. Papers from the last conferences organized by him, which he is the Editor-in-Chief, have recently been published by Africa World Press in New Jersey, USA, under the title ‘Calabar on the Cross River: Historical and Cultural Studies (2017)’. Dr. Imbua is the author of several publications, which comprise books, history and historical fictions, book chapters, and articles in learned national and international journals. Some of his books have won various national and international awards and commendations. The last in this regard is his Intercourse and Crosscurrents in the Atlantic World: Calabar-British Experience, 17th – 20th Centuries (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2012) which won the Lapai Book Prize for Outstanding Historical Text in International History in 2015. Dr Imbua has carried out various assignments for UNESCO and currently a contributor to the UNESCO project, General History of Africa. Apart from this, he collaborates with internationally acclaimed historians in various lands on various projects. A widely travelled scholar, Dr. Imbua has permitted the translation of some of his works into some other international and local languages for the benefit of speakers of those languages. He is a Member and National Assistant Secretary, Historical Society of Nigeria, Pan-African Historical Association, Association of Nigerian Writers amongst many others..