Eldred D. Jones
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Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925 – 21 March 2020)
Biography
Eldred Durosimi Jones was born on 6 January 1925 to
In 1968, he became the first editor of the journal African Literature Today, continuing in the role for more than three decades.[5]
His critical works include Othello's Countrymen: A Study of the African in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Oxford University Press, 1985), The Writing of Wole Soyinka (Heinemann, 1973), and The Elizabethan Image of Africa (University of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1971).[1] Jones was also the author of The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags (James Currey, 2012) with the help of his wife Marjorie Jones.
Eldred Jones died on 21 March 2020, at the age of 95.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b c Africa Who's Who, London: Africa Journal for Africa Books Ltd, 1981, p. 537.
- ^ "Birmingham University honours 2". Awareness Times. 24 April 2006. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ Thomas, Abdul Rashid (21 March 2020). "Sierra Leone has lost a great patriot – Professor Eldred Jones". The Sierra Leone Telegraph.
- ^ Gradatues of the University. Durham: Durham University. 1948. p. 134.
- ^ a b Williams, Abiodun (30 March 2020). "Other lives | Eldredn Joes obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ "Professor Eldred Jones (1925 – 2020)". Corpus Christi College Oxford. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
External links
- Review of The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags by Jane Plastow, Leeds African Studies Bulletin, 75 (2013/14), 30 July 2013.
- Kole Omotoso, "Eldred Durosimi (Pause For Breath) Jones 1925 – 2020", The Guardian (Nigeria), 19 April 2020.
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