Simon Gikandi

Simon Gikandi is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organisations such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. His many books include Reading the African Novel (1987), Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism (1996) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2000). He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of African Literature (2002) and co-editor of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature (2004). He is currently completing a book on the relation between slavery and the culture of taste.