Decolonising the Mind. Wa Thiong'o Ngugi

Decolonising the Mind


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The Kenyan author, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, wrote this book in 1986. The title is a take-off on a book by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, “Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature” (1986). Scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o famously rejected English, the colonial language of Kenya, as a medium for his creative writing, and later fully committed to writing solely in his native Gikuyu after writing Decolonizing the Mind. Ngũgĩ gave up writing in English. Ngugi Wa Thiongo's “Decolonising the Mind” holds true in the present day as well where we have failed to carve out our own subjectivity that would be perfectly divested of the Western thought of conduct and behaviour. He described how African authors wrote in English to reach a wide audience. Whereas the most visible forms of political colonialism have for the most part disappeared from the planet by the end of the millennium, several of its consequences remain with us. Posted: October 16, 2010 in Uncategorized · 1. Evaluating the Text 3) After the declaration of state of emergency, Kenya schools were to be handed over to patriotic nationalist. Just as his 'Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986)', in which he wrote, “The bullet was the means of physical subjugation.

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