Bernth lindfors biography channel

Slides of black popular entertainment performers, part of Professor Lindfors research for Early Black Enteratinments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians book.

Items are available to view by appointment in the NFCA reading room

Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of National Fairground and Circus Archive, subject to copyright law and condition of the material

Professor Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures at the University of Texas, Austin.

He has long been internationally recognised as one of the pioneers and academic authorities on African literary history and criticism and he is the chief archivist of African literary culture. Professor Lindfors is the author and editor of