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Eldred D. Jones is a professor and author who was born on 6 January, 1925 in Freetown, British Sierra Leone. He is 95 years old. He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for more than 30 years. He is a renowned scholar of African literature and culture, and has written extensively on the subject. He is the author of several books, including The Emancipation of the Imagination: The Poetry of African-American Writers, The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora, and The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association. He is married to his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Jones, and they have two children. He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

Popular As Eldred Durosimi Jones
Occupation Literary critic, university professor, university principal
Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 6 January, 1925
Birthday 6 January
Birthplace Freetown, British Sierra Leone
Date of death March 21, 2020
Died Place Freetown, Sierra Leone
Nationality Sierra Leone

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2020

Eldred Jones died on 21 March 2020, at the age of 95.

1985

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). 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.

1925

Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925 – 21 March 2020) was a Sierra Leonean academic and literary critic, known for his book Othello's Countrymen: A Study of Africa in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. He was a principal of Fourah Bay College. Jones died in Freetown, Sierra Leone, around 1am on Saturday 21 March 2020.

Eldred Durosimi Jones was born on 6 January 1925 to Sierra Leone Creole parents. On his maternal side, Jones descended from the Jamaican Maroons. Jones attended the CMS Grammar School, Freetown, and Fourah Bay College (1944–47), completing a Bachelor of Arts degree. He studied in England at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1950–53) and the main campus of the University of Durham (1962).