Francis Egbokhare
Nigerian academic and linguist
Francis Egbokhare (born 22 September 1962) is a prolific scholar, academic linguist, writer, and professor from Nigeria, and a fellow and the immediate past president of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. He has held positions at the University of Ibadan for many years as a professor of linguistics and as the Director of the Distance Learning Centre. He lives in Ibadan.
Bio and academic career
Born Francis Oisaghaede Egbokhare from Afuze in Edo State, he attended St John’s primary School, Igarra, Edo State, between 1967 and 1972, and then St. Gabriel Primary School, Agenebode, also in Edo State, between 1972 and 1973. He proceeded to Otaru Grammar School, Auchi, between 1973 and 1978, and to Edaiken Grammar School, Okhuaihe, Benin City, from 1978 to 1979. He attended the University of Benin for his BA degree (1979–1983), and the University of Ibadan for his MA (1985) and PhD in 1990.
While at the University of Benin, he met and began to work with American professor Ronald P. Schaefer with whom he went on to have a long and sustained collaboration over thirty years, and published about 35 books and essays on Emai, his mother tongue, in the space of 20 years.
From 1985 to 1988, Egbokhare was Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan. From 1988 to 1991, he became Lecturer II in the same department.
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