Postcolonial Europe

Simon Gikandi is a Professor of English at Princeton University. His books include Reading the African Novel (1987), Reading Chinua Achebe: Language and Ideology in Fiction (1991), Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (1992), Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism (1996), and Ngugi wa Thiongo (2001). In this interview, Dr. Gikandi speaks about the idea of the postcolonial paradigm, the relationship between postcolonialism and globalization, the work of literature and the literary critic, and decolonization as an ongoing ethical project.