Biodun Jeyifo

Biodun Jeyifo is a Nigerian Marxist scholar, critic, and cultural theorist and a specialist in world Anglophone literature and culture. Born on January 5th 1946, he is a professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University and emeritus professor of English at Cornell. He has also taught at Oberlin College and he's a visiting professor at Freie University in Berlin and Peking University in China.

Of him it has been said “No other scholar, apart from Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha, is more attentive to the radically dispensed accents or strands of thinking the post-colonial the way BJ has done.” Provided by Wikipedia