Paulo de Moraes Farias

Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, FBA, is a Brazilian historian and Africanist specialising in epigraphic sources for the medieval history (5th to the 15th century) of West Africa as well as West African oral traditions and the Timbuktu Chronicles.[1] Since his retirement in 2003, he has been Honorary Professor at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. After graduating from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, in 1963, Moreas Farias taught at Bahia's Centre for Afro-Oriental Studies and at the Central College of Salvador; his association with the National Union of Students (Brazil) led to harassment from the military government of Brazil after 1964, prompting him to flee to Africa. Settling with his family in Ghana, he completed a Master of Arts degree at the University of Ghana, but fled once again[why?] to Senegal and then Nigeria following the Ghanaian coup of 1966; two years later, he took up an academic post at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, where he remained until retiring in 2003.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ a b "Professor Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias FBA". birmingham.ac.uk. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  2. ^ Gallas, Daniel (1 April 2014). "'Na África, voltei a ser cidadão', conta brasileiro exilado em 1964". bbc.com/portuguese (in Portuguese). BBC. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Professor Paulo De Moraes Farias. West African history: oral traditions, chronicles, and medieval Arabic inscriptions; the interaction of Islamic and other cultural heritages in the region. Elected 2017". britac.ac.uk. British Academy. Retrieved 18 August 2022.