found: His Notes on Camara Laye's The African child, 1980:t.p. (Simon Gikandi)
found: Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Feb. 24, 2005(Simon Eliud Gikandi; also known as Simon Gikandi, Simon E. Gikandi; 1956- )
found: Caribbean literature in transition, 1920-1970, 2020:page xii (Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University)
found: Princeton University web site, November 8, 2023:(Simon Gikandi, Chair, Department of English, [email protected] ; Born in Nyeri, Kenya, Gikandi earned his BA in literature, with first-class honors from the University of Nairobi. As a British Council Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, he graduated with an MLitt in English studies. He has a PhD in English from Northwestern University. Gikandi's major fields of research and teaching are Anglophone literatures and cultures of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and postcolonial Britain; literary and critical theory; the black Atlantic and the African diaspora; and the English novel. His current research projects are on slavery and modernity, Decolonization and African Literature, and Global Modernism.) CV (Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1986, English Literature; University of Edinburgh, M.Litt., 1982; University of Nairobi, BA, 1979 ; employment: Princeton University, 2004-; University of Michigan, 1991-2004; Harvard University, 1989-90; University of Massachusetts, Boston, 1987-91 California State University, Bakersfield, 1986-87) - https://english.princeton.edu/people/simon-gikandi