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Decolonising the Mind Wa Thiong'o Ngugi
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Couple of weeks ago we've read one interesting article called “Decolonising the Mind” in class. Ngugi wa Thiong'o successfully wrote in English but eventually turned to writing in Gikuyu, his mother tongue. €�We have unfinished business of decolonising the minds of our people by changing the name of Lake Victoria, which was given by the colonialists,” he said. Influenced by Professor Ngugi wa Thiongo's Decolonising the Mind, Musodza has been an advocate for the sustained use of African languages. Which is partly the source of Wainana's annoyance at Kenya's - Africa's - patron de lettres, and his inconvenient book, Decolonising the Mind. According to this article, one men (let's called him Author) interpret his life through language, English language. He wants other writers to follow his exa. Panned at home by the middle-class elite – the products of the West's economic engineering project – Decolonising the Mind nevertheless gained cult-like status abroad. He felt angry at the imperial or colonial languages being used in the discourse of African languages and chided Gabriel Okara for writing in English (in 'The Language of African Literature' and Decolonising the Mind). Enole Ditsheko steps into the ongoing, and sometimes treacherous, conversation about the choice of African authors to write in English or in indigenous languages, such as Setswana or Gujarati. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature book download Download Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature . Three works by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.