Nikolai Jeffs was born in 1968 in Sheffield, northern England. He completed his undergraduate studies and earned his PhD at the University of Essex. He was co-editor of the anthology Afrike (with Borut Brumen, 2001), editor of Zbornik postkolonialnih študij (Anthology of Postcolonial Studies, 2007), co-author of the documentary film Borili smo se proti njim … Kriki k razumevanju starega nasilja nove Evrope (We Fought Against Them … Cries for Understanding the Old Violence of the New Europe, with Andrej Pavlišič, 2004), and co-curator of Artcoustics, an exhibition of vinyl record cover art (with Guy Schraenen and Božidar Zrinski, 2007).

He is also the author of numerous essays, articles, and book chapters, as well as a public commentator on contemporary cultural and political affairs. He lives in Ljubljana and teaches at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, in Koper-Capodistria.