Eldred D. Jones | |
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| Born | Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925-01-06)6 January 1925 Freetown,British Sierra Leone |
| Died | 21 March 2020(2020-03-21) (aged 95) Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Occupation | Literary critic,university professor,university principal |
| Nationality | British Subject,Sierra Leonean |
| Education | CMS Grammar School, Freetown;Fourah Bay College;Corpus Christi College, Oxford'University of Durham |
ProfessorEldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925 – 21 March 2020)[1] was aSierra Leonean academic and literary critic, known for his bookOthello's Countrymen: A Study of Africa in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. He was a principal ofFourah Bay College.[2] Jones died inFreetown, Sierra Leone, on Saturday, 21 March 2020.[3]
Eldred Durosimi Jones was born on 6 January 1925 toSierra Leone Creole parents. On his maternal side, Jones descended from theJamaican Maroons. Jones attended theCMS Grammar School, Freetown, andFourah Bay College (1944–47), completing aBachelor of Arts degree.[4] He studied in England atCorpus Christi College, Oxford (1950–53) and the main campus of theUniversity of Durham (1962).[1]
In 1968, he became the first editor of the journalAfrican Literature Today, continuing in the role for more than three decades.[5]
His critical works includeOthello's Countrymen: A Study of the African in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Oxford University Press, 1985),The Writing of Wole Soyinka (Heinemann, 1973), andThe Elizabethan Image of Africa (University of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1971).[1] Jones was also the author ofThe 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]
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