Simon Gikandi, Class of 1943 University Professor of English, chair of the English department, and member of the executive committee of the Program in African Studies, recently launched a three-volume collection of essays co-edited with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts. 

“Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place,” “Dissolving Master Narratives,” and “Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy” were supported by Princeton African Humanities Colloquium (PAHC), which provides a forum to promote research and teaching in the humanities and to incorporate the study of Africa in existing and future research projects, over the last ten years. Gikandi is PAHC’s current director. 

The collection gathers thinkers from across world regions and disciplines who reconfigure critical global thought. “The essays cover all fields in the humanities and social sciences from aesthetics to political economy,” Gikandi says.