Simon Gikandi

Author

1956 –

68

Who is Simon Gikandi?

Simon E. Gikandi is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

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Born
1956
Kenya
Nationality
  • Kenya
Education
  • PhD, Northwestern University
    English Literature
  • University of Nairobi

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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