English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1706 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and the Language Question
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The idea
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a Kenyan novelist who died in two thousand twenty-five, wrote first in English and then switched to Gikuyu. His essays Decolonising the Mind, of nineteen eighty-six, argue for linguistic decolonization, literature in African languages, in the "language debate."
In practice
From English to Gikuyu.
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