 | Professor Graham Furniss
Professor of African Language Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (H3) Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger
Graham Furniss was born in India. After secondary school in Kent, he was a VSO volunteer in Senegal before taking a first degree in Hausa and Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He went on to complete a doctorate on a circle of Hausa poets writing in the early 1970s in northern Nigeria, and subsequently taught at Bayero University, Kano and the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, before returning to teach at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His interests in oral and popular cultures of Africa led him to become the founding President of the International Society for Oral Literature in Africa (ISOLA) and the founding editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies. |
