Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

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J. Currey, 1986 - Education - 114 pages

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 centuries Europe stole art treasures from Africa to decorate their houses and museums; in the twentieth century Europe is stealing the treasures of the mind to enrich their languages and cultures...."

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The Language of African Theatre
34
The Language of African Fiction
63
The Quest for Relevance
87
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