About Eldred Durosimi Jones

Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (6 January 1925 – 21 March 2020)[1] 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).