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Decolonizing Language by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o review – final words of literary giant

An exhilarating collection distills the late writer’s thinking on power, exile and the importance of the mother tongue

On 17 July 1979, the great Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o gave a speech in Nai…

Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest

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,…

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