Gerald Moore (scholar)
Gerald Moore is an independent scholar living in Worthing, England. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has taught at many universities, including Sussex, Hong Kong, Makerere, Ife, Port Harcourt, Jos and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His last teaching post was at Trieste. He is primarily a scholar of contemporary African anglophone and francophone poetry. With Ulli Beier, he edited the influential Modern Poetry from Africa, a comprehensive anthology, republished in 1984 as The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry.Major works
As translator:
- Beti, Mongo. The Poor Christ of Bomba. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland, 2005.
- Beti, Mongo. Remember Ruben. Heinemann, London, 1980
- Tchicaya U Tam'si. Selected Poems. Heinemann, London, 1970
- Lopes, Henri. The Laughing Cry. Readers International, London, 1987
