Biography

Peter Simatei is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultures. He teaches African Literature, African Drama, Diaspora Studies, and African Cinema in the Department of Literature, Theatre, and Film Studies at Moi University, Kenya. He has a PhD from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has been a German Research Council (DFG) Post-doctoral Fellow (Postcolonial Studies Program) at the University of Munich, Germany and a fellow of the Five College African Scholars program at the University of Massachusetts, USA. He is also an alumnus of Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany. Peter Simatei is currently the Director of the Moi University Africa Multiple Research Centre of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence.