Eldred D. Jones

Sierra Leonean academic
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IntroSierra Leonean academic
PlacesSierra Leone
isLinguist
Work fieldLiterature Social science
Gender
Male
Birth5 January 1925
Age100 years
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Biography

Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (born 6 January 1925) is a Sierra Leonean academic and literary critic. Jones is known for his book Othello's Countrymen: A Study of Africa in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. He is a former principal of Fourah Bay College.

Background

Eldred Durosimi Jones was born on 6 January 1925 to Sierra Leone Creole people parents. On his paternal side, Jones descends from the Nova Scotian Settlers, who were African Americans and the founders of Freetown. Jones attended the CMS Grammar School, Freetown, and Fourah Bay College (1944-47), before studying in England at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1950-53) and the University of Durham (1962).

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). He is also the author of The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags (James Currey, 2012) with the help of his wife Marjorie Jones.

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