Louise Pirouet

(Margaret Mary) Louise Pirouet (1928–2012) was a British teacher and researcher.

Pirouet was born to missionary parents in Cape Town, South Africa.^[1] She gained her PhD at Makerere University in 1968.^[2] She subsequently taught at the University of Nairobi in Kenya.^[1] From 1978 to 1989 she was Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Homerton College, Cambridge. She died 21 December 2012.^[3]

Works

• Black evangelists: the spread of Christianity in Uganda, 1891–1914, London: Collings, 1978.
• Historical dictionary of Uganda, Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995.
• Whatever happened to asylum in Britain? A tale of two walls, New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2001. Studies in Forced Migration, v. 9.