Chidi Ikonne

Professor Ikonné is a professor of African and black/African American literatures. Currently at The University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, he has taught at several universities in the US and Nigeria including the University of Calabar, Central College Bella in Iowa, Harvard University, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has written several books on early back American literature, W.E.B. Du Bois, the representation of Africa in black-American literature, and Igbo folktales.