Professor Paulo de Moraes Farias FBA
West African history: oral traditions, chronicles, and medieval Arabic inscriptions; the interaction of Islamic and other cultural heritages in the region
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Year of death
- 2026
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Last post
Honorary Professor, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham
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