# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-donnelly-fage
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:43:58.999Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-donnelly-fage"
name: "John Donnelly Fage"
slug: "john-donnelly-fage"
description: "John Donnelly Fage was a British historian who was among the first academics to specialise in African history, especially of the pre-colonial period, in the United Kingdom and West Africa. He published a number of influential studies on West African history including Introduction to the History of West Africa (1955). He subsequently co-founded the Journal of African History, the first specialist academic journal in the field, with Roland Oliver in 1960."
tagline: "British historian; (1921-2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-06-03"
deathDate: "2002-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.76
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.471310666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fage"
    title: "John Fage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "جون دونيلى فيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donnelly_Fage"
    title: "John Donnelly Fage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Fage"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donnelly_Fage"
    title: "John Donnelly Fage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B6%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Фейдж, Джон Доннелли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699829"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump