Decolonising the Mind - (Studies in African Literature (Paperback)) by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature.'<br/><br/>East Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda]: EAEP<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>... after 25 years of independence, there is beginning to emerge a generation of writers for whom colonialism is a matter of history and not of direct personal experience. In retrospect that literature characterised by Ngugi as Afro-European - the literature written by Africans in European languages - will come to be seen as part and parcel of the uneasy period between colonialism and full independence, a period equally reflected in the continent's political instability as it attempts to find its feet. Ngugi's importance - and that of this book - lies in the courage with which he has confronted this most urgent of issues. ---Adewale Maja-Pearce "THE NEW STATESMAN "<br><br>Many of the ideas are familiar from Ngugi's earlier critical books, and earlier lectures, elsewhere. But the material here has a new context and the ideas a new focus. This leading African writer presents the arguments for using African language and forms after successfully using an African language himself. ---Anne Walmsley "THE GUARDIAN "<br>
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