Eldred Durosimi Jones

Eldred Durosimi Jones was born on 6 January 1925 in Freetown, to Creole parents; his father was a customs officer. A pupil at the Church Missionary Society Grammar School and at Fourah Bay College, he studied English literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, then in 1962 submitted at Durham a thesis on the black characters of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Professor of English at Fourah Bay College, which he directed from 1974 to 1985, he founded the journal African Literature Today in 1968 and edited it for more than thirty years. He died in Freetown on 21 March 2020.

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• EssayOthello's CountrymenEldred Durosimi Jones · 1965Literature