Profile: Dr. Lazlo Passemiers

Abstract

In the context of a tense political landscape and student-led decolonisation protests in South Africa, it is a rarity to come across scholars who can acknowledge, and work from the starting point of their personal history and yet reach towards the upper bars of scholarship. One such scholar is an emerging cold war historian of transnational African politics, Dr Lazlo Patrick Christian Passemiers, a lecturer in the Department of History and postdoctoral research fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State.