In 2015 it was announced that he would co-present Civilisations, a sequel to Kenneth Clark's 1969 television documentary series Civilisation, alongside the historians Mary Beard and Simon Schama. Subsequently he became a television presenter, beginning in 2014 with The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire, about the Indian, African and Asian troops who fought in the First World War, followed by other documentaries and appearances on BBC One television's The One Show. He became a producer of history programmes after university, working from 2005 on programmes such as Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich, The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith and Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner?. Olusoga began his television career as a researcher on the 1999 BBC series Western Front. He later attended the University of Liverpool to study the history of slavery, and in 1994, graduated with a BA (Hons) History degree, followed by a postgraduate course in broadcast journalism at Leeds Trinity University. They were eventually forced to leave as a result of the racism. By the time he was 14, the National Front had attacked his house on more than one occasion, requiring police protection for him and his family.
He was one of a very few non-white people living on that council estate.
At five years old, Olusoga migrated to the UK with his mother and grew up in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
David Olusoga was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a Nigerian father and British mother.
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