My father Louis James is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent, Canterbury.  Over a career of 40 years he taught in Africa, America, Asia and in Europe.  In the 1960s he taught at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and published widely in the fields of Victorian, Modern and Caribbean literature. 

His publications include Jean Rhys (1978), Fiction for the Working Man (1963), Caribbean Literature in English (1998) and The Victorian Novel (2006). While at UWI, he also edited Islands In Between (1968). Louis James has been involved with Wasafiri from its inception at the University of Kent.

The Dickens Study Annual in Boston, USA, wrote an article on his life as a pioneer of Victorian literature, and also covered his work as a pioneer introducing Caribbean and African literature to the world.  

I asked him to read the article to me, which he does superbly over a 33 minute interview which shows an amazingly varied life from childhood in s. Africa to methodist missionaries, through to taking a young family around the world on sabbaticals, all while having books published and seminars presented.

You can find more of his works at https://linktr.ee/wlgjames