I talked with Prof. Jones at his residence atop the Leicester Hills overlooking Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. In 2016, a few short months after his beloved Marjorie (co-editor ALT 15-24) died, a partial house fire engulfed their library, and with it a lifetime collection of African literary classics, including copies of the Bulletin of African Literature, which preceded ALT, and a copy of Polyglotta Africana, Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle's comparative study of over 156 West African languages. Despite these two life-changing events, Prof. Jones, 93, is remarkably present, as alert, witty, and charming as I remember him when I was a student in his class. Our conversation took place in the reconstructed library, now pared down to a cloth upholstered chair, a bookshelf on top of which sat a combination radio and audio cassette player (to listen to classical music), a few paintings, framed newspaper cuttings hanging on the walls, and a desk in front of which he sat in a black high-back office chair on a swivel. On the morning I walked into the library, Prof. Jones (henceforth EDJ) had been reading Shakespeare, in Braille, ‘to keep my mind sharp’, he explains, after which he told me he had voted in Sierra Leone's March 2018 presidential elections.