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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
Website
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/dasa/fernando-paulo.aspx

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Honorary Professor, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham

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