Selwyn cudjoe biography of mahatma
Selwyn cudjoe biography of mahatma
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Selwyn Cudjoe
Trinidad and Tobago academic, scholar, historian, essayist and editor (born )
Selwyn Cudjoe (born 1 December )[1] is a Trinidadian academic, scholar, historian, essayist and editor who is Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College.
He was also the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and the Marion Butler McClean Professor in the History of Ideas at Wellesley.[2][3] Cudjoe's particular expertise is Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history, and he teaches courses on the African-American literary tradition, African literature, black women writers, and Caribbean literature.[2]
Life and career
Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe was born in Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago, like several generations of his family,[4][5] growing up on a sugar estate on which ancestors of his had worked.[6] His parents were Lionel R.
and Carmen Rose Cudjoe;[