Career
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. 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 Content Management System Grammar School, Freetown, and Fourah Bay College (1944-1947), before studying in England at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1950-1953) 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).
