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5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Colonisation
Because Ngugi Wa Thiong`o is discussing decolonization, he does address colonization, and neocolonialism — inherently violent systems. While some violence is named (ie: enslavement, incarceration, murder), he does not get into explicit detail as he centers language, literature, and culture.gallagh3rr's review against another edition
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4.25
important book on language and culture
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yes! yes!yes! fantastic thought provoking and informative work that is accessible ! yes!
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annepw's review against another edition
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I don't have the context to grasp every argument he makes, but Ngugi is clearly radiantly intelligent, and his writing incisive. This is a slim volume of concentrated brilliance from an admirable writer and intellectual.
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" The call for a rediscovery and the resumption of our language is a call for a regenerative reconnection with the millions of revolutionary tongues in Africa and the world over demanding liberation.
It is a call for the rediscovery of the real language of humankind: the language of struggle.
It is the universal language underlying all speech and words of our history.
Struggle.
Struggle makes history.
Struggle makes us.
In struggle is our history, our language and our being.
That struggle begins wherever we are; in whatever we do: the we become part of those millions whom Martin Cater once saw sleeping not to dream but dreaming to change the world."
That outro got ya boi.
It is a call for the rediscovery of the real language of humankind: the language of struggle.
It is the universal language underlying all speech and words of our history.
Struggle.
Struggle makes history.
Struggle makes us.
In struggle is our history, our language and our being.
That struggle begins wherever we are; in whatever we do: the we become part of those millions whom Martin Cater once saw sleeping not to dream but dreaming to change the world."
That outro got ya boi.