Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

1987/01/01 by Jidlaph G. Kamoche, Ngũugĩ wa Thiong'o · 9 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies #African history and culture studies

paper · doi:10.2307/40143257

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Abstract

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. North America: Heinemann; Kenya: EAEP

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