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Boubacar Boris Diop is one of today’s most prominent African writers with experience in genres as diverse as the novel, play, essay, and feature article. Diop was the former editor-in-chief for Le Matin de Dakar, an independent daily Senegalese newspaper, and after having collaborated for years with the Zurich-based daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Italian weekly Internazionale, he is currently columnist at the London magazine The New African. |
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Simon Gikandi is a Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and served as editor of the PMLA, the official journal of the Modern Languages Association (MLA), for five years (2011-2016). He is the author of many books and articles, including Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a Choice Outstanding Academic Publication for 2004, and co-author of The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945. |
