Name Eldred Jones | ||
Education Sierra Leone Grammar School Books Othello's countrymen, The writing of Wole Soyinka, The Elizabethan image of Africa, Wole Soyinka | ||
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 maternal side, Jones descends from the Jamaican Maroons. 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.