Saeed Jadidwas born in Bangladesh and earned a bachelor’s degree in surgery and medicine from the University of Chittagong. He is the past editor ofJournal of Health SciencesandMrittika(a literary journal in Bengali) and has published a collection of poems,Nibedita Pongtimala, in Bengali. He is a researcher of human history and translator with special interest in the history of Africa. Recently, he translated Lawrence Hill’s TheBook of Negroes into Bengali.
