Ferdinand Dennis

Writer and broadcaster Ferdinand Dennis was born in 1956 in Jamaica.

He read sociology at Leicester University and studied for a Masters degree at Birkbeck College, London University. A former Robert Kennedy research fellow, he has lectured in Nigeria, and has presented a series called Journey Round My People for BBC Radio 4, as well as a television programme about Africa for Channel 4. He has also worked for the magazines Front Lines and City Limits and has had short stories published in a variety of magazines and anthologies.

He is the author of two travelogues: Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain (1988); and Back to Africa: A Journey (1992), and has also published three novels: The Sleepless Summer (1989); The Last Blues Dance (1996); and Duppy Conqueror (1998).