Simon gikandi ngugi wa thiongo autobiography

Kenyan academic (born 1960)

Simon E. Gikandi (born 30 September 1960) is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar.

He is the Class of 1943 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. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association.

Gikandi was born to a Presbyterian family in Nyeri, Kenya.

Tracing Ngugi's career from the s through to his role in shaping a radical culture in East Africa in the s and his imprisonment and.

This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in Drawing from a wide range of.

Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

In this paper I undertake a dialogic reading of the memoirs and A Grain of Wheat to examine how Ngugi uses writing to inscribe postcolonial trauma and.

In telling his own story, Ngũgĩ also tells the stories of his compatriots, particularly friends that he made at Alliance, who become prototypes for fictional.

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 M.Litt. in English Studies.^[2] He has a Ph.D.

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