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

Current post

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Stephen Pulman FBA

Semantics Computational Linguistics

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Professor Nicholas de Lange FBA

Hebrew language & literature: history of Greek-speaking Judaism; Jewish-Christian relations; modern Jewish theology

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Professor Michael Cook FBA

The history of the Islamic world; the formation & development of traditional Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic history in comparative perspective.

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