George Porter
George Porter was born in Liverpool in 1943. At fourteen he joined the Army as a boy soldier and subsequently served in Germany, the Persian Gulf, and Norway. After leaving the Army, he went first into the music publishing industry, eventually forming his own publishing/recording company, and then into magazine publishing. He has a combined honours degree in English and History from Ruskin University Cambridge and has a keen interest in the origins of Ancient Greek literature. He spent three years in Nigeria working on an adult literacy project for the British Council where he travelled the length and breadth of the country meeting and working with the many different peoples, of whom the Fulani nomads further influenced his contention that western civilization owes a great deal more to Africa than has ever been attributed. His play, Black Antigone, a new interpretation of Sophocles' tragedy, was published by Chaplin Books in 2012.