My father, Gerald Moore, who has died aged 98, was a scholar of anglophone and francophone literature written by Africans. He wrote a number of books on the subject, including The Chosen Tongue (1969), Twelve African Writers (1980) and a biography of the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka (1971).
He also co-edited, with the German scholar Ulli Beier, The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry in 1963, working on its revised edition in 1984. In addition he made many recordings of African musicians on field trips during the 1950s and 60s, and these are now held in a collection at the British Library.
