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Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor and Chair of English at Princeton University, USA where he is also affiliated with the Departments of Comparative Literature and African American Studies and the Program in African Studies R. N. Sandberg is a lecturer at the Lewis Center for the Arts and Department of English, Princeton University (1995-2021). Though retired in 2021, Sandberg has continued to be affiliated with the Program in Theater, advising and directing student theses Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934. Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012. A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fig