Gikandi achebe biography

Kenyan academic (born )

Simon E. Gikandi (born 30 September ) is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Class of University Professor of English at Princeton University.^[1] He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship (with Abiola Irele) 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.

Gikandi achebe biography

In he became the president of the Modern Language Association.

Gikandi was born to a Presbyterian family in Nyeri, Kenya. He graduated with a B.A [First-Class Honors] in Literature from the University of Nairobi. He was a British Council Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from which he graduated with a in English Studies.^[2] He has a Ph.D.

in English from Northwestern University. His major Fields of Research and Teaching are the Anglophone Literatures and Cultures