Book · 1986 · Nonfiction

Decolonising the Mind

Name: Decolonising the Mind
Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The Politics of Language in African Literature

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Currey · 114 pages

★ 6.2 editorial score

Ngugi's schoolmasters caned children for speaking Gikuyu, or hung a plate around their necks reading I AM STUPID. Empire takes the mind through language, he argues, and he abandoned English for his fiction.

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Subject

Language Colonialism

Time

1986

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