Christopher N. Okonkwo is Professor of African and African American Literature at Florida State University's Department of English. He is the author of Kindred Spirits: Chinua Ache...view moreChristopher N. Okonkwo is Professor of African and African American Literature at Florida State University's Department of English. He is the author of Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison (University of Virginia Press, 2022) and A Spirit of Dialogue: Incarnations of Ògbañje, the Born-to-Die, in African American Literature (University of Tennessee Press, 2008). view less