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Professor Graham Furniss FBA

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
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2009
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff122014.php

Current post

Emeritus Professor of African Language Literature, SOAS, University of London

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