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Francis Abiola Irele (commonly Abiola Irele, born 1936) is a Nigerian academic who has been called the doyen of Africanist literary scholars worldwide. He is currently Provost at the newly founded Kwara State University in Ilorin, Nigeria.〔(Kwara State University-The University for Community Development )〕 Before moving back to Nigeria, Irele was Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.〔(Reviews of his essays, OUP website )〕〔(Faculty page, Harvard University )〕 Irele graduated from Ibadan University in 1960. Immediately after graduation, he went to Paris to learn French and completed a Ph.D in French at the University of Paris, Sorbonne in 1966. He held teaching positions at the University of Ghana, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and University of Ibadan. In 1989, he moved to Ohio State University in the U.S. as Professor of African, French and Comparative Literature. ==Selected publications== * ''The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora'', Oxford University Press (paperback 2001), ISBN 0-19-508619-8 * ''The African Experience in Literature and Ideology'', Indiana University Press (reprint 1990), ISBN 0-253-33124-2 * Joint editor with Simon Gikandi of ''The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature'', Cambridge University Press (2004), ISBN 0-521-59434-0 * "Négritude: Literature and ideology" in ''The African Philosophy Reader'', ISBN 0-415-96809-7 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「F. Abiola Irele」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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