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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
This is such a great work for people who are new into African literature, as well as for the people who are from countries like India, pakistan and Bangladesh, this defines this power of literature and language and how it affects public perception and culture.
"Is it right that a man should abandon his mother tongue for someone else's ? It looks like a dreadful betrayal and produces a guilty feeling. But for me there is no other choice. I have been given the language and I intend to use it."
- Achebe
"And then I went to school, a colonial school, and this harmony was broken. The language of my education was no longer the language of my culture."
"Children were turned into witchhunters and in the process were being taught the lucrative value of being a traitor to one's immediate community."
"('Catching them young') as an aim was even more true of a colonial child. The images of this world and his place in it implanted in a child take years to eradicate, if they ever can be."
"Is it right that a man should abandon his mother tongue for someone else's ? It looks like a dreadful betrayal and produces a guilty feeling. But for me there is no other choice. I have been given the language and I intend to use it."
- Achebe
"And then I went to school, a colonial school, and this harmony was broken. The language of my education was no longer the language of my culture."
"Children were turned into witchhunters and in the process were being taught the lucrative value of being a traitor to one's immediate community."
"('Catching them young') as an aim was even more true of a colonial child. The images of this world and his place in it implanted in a child take years to eradicate, if they ever can be."