Mélanie TorrentMélanie Torrent is Professor of British and Commonwealth History at the Université Picardie Jules Verne, France, where she teaches in the department of modern languages and cultures. She was previously senior lecturer at the Université Paris Dderot (2006-2019), and is senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. She is the author of Diplomacy and Nation-Building: Franco-British Relations and Cameroon at the End of Empire (2012). Read More Read Less