Cover of Decolonising the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Ideas & Essays · First published 1986

Decolonising the Mind

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oKenya

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on the politics of language in African literature, and his decision to write in Gĩkũyũ rather than English.

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