Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
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The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisation
In the 1930s,…