David Cook (1929 – 30 March 2003) was a British academic, literary critic and anthologist.[1] As a professor of literature at the Universities of
Makerere and
Ilorin, he played an important role in encouraging
literature in
East Africa.[2]
Life
David Cook was educated at
Birkbeck College, London, graduating from the
University of London in 1954 with a first-class degree in English literature, and completing a MA in 1956. He then taught at the
University of Southampton until 1962, when he became a lecturer at
Makerere University. He became Senior Lecturer in 1965, and Professor and Head of department in 1967. From 1977 to 1989 he was Professor of English and Head of the Department of Modern European Languages at the
University of Ilorin.[1]
Works
(ed.) Origin East Africa: a Makerere anthology, London : Heinemann Educational Books, 1965.
African Writers Series, 15.
(ed. with Miles Lee) Short East African plays in English: ten plays in English, London & Nairobi: Heinemann Educational, 1968.