Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

114 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging reflective slow-paced

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Ngugi describes this book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in the teaching of literature.In the eighteenth and nineteenth cen...

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