Francis Egbokhare (born September 22, 1962) is a prolific scholar, academic linguist, writer, and professor from Nigeria, and a fellow and the immediate past president of the Nigerian Academy of Letters.
[1][2][3][4][5] He has held positions at the University of Ibadan for many years as a professor of linguistics and as the Director of the Distance Learning Centre.
His columns in Nigeria's national newspapers under the title "Preying Mantis" focuses on education, politics, integrity in public service, faith, language, among others.
In collaboration with Professor R. P. Schaefer, he has produced a 552-page "Dictionary of Emai" (2007) and two volumes of oral tradition narratives running to 1,261 pages.
He mobilized academic and non-academic staff to move the DLC from obscurity (derisively regarded as Siberia) to the foremost Distance Learning operation in Africa.
A paper he co-wrote “Learners Acceptance of the Use of Mobile Phones to Deliver Tutorials in a Distance Learning Context: A Case Study at the University of Ibadan."