LTAI 005 - Professor Selwyn Cudjoe

Selwyn Cudjoe 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. His 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. He is also a political activist and the founder of the National Association for the Empowerment of African People in Trinidad and Tobago.

Follow his blog here: http://www.trinicenter.com/Cudjoe/

Find his latest book here: https://www.amazon.com/Slave-Master-Trinidad-Nineteenth-Century-Atlantic/dp/1625343701