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Decolonising the Mind by Wa Thiong'o Ngugi

Decolonising the Mind Wa Thiong'o Ngugi ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0435080164, 9780435080167
Page: 114
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A good one could tell the same story over and over again, and it would always be fresh to us, the listeners. And his years of 'narratives' from our minds. Panned at home by the middle-class elite – the products of the West's economic engineering project – Decolonising the Mind nevertheless gained cult-like status abroad. Decolonising the Mind is about influencing peoples race and culture by victorious authoritative control. What is then needed is a decolonisation of the mind; something that cannot happen without a return to ones own true self, values, heritage, and, importantly, categories of thought. Posted on April 25, 2013 by sebweinmann — Leave a comment ↓. We speak about anything from Emperor Constantine to Nazi Germany to Christ Consciousness to Decolonising the mind of the human race. I remember on the slave ships how they brutalized our very souls. In his book Decolonising the Mind is both an explanation of how he came to write in Gikuyu, as well as an exhortation for African writers to embrace their native tongues in their art. €�There were good and bad story-tellers. €�Every time I hear the crack of a whip, my blood runs cold. Armed with just one copy of his book, I told him about how “Decolonising The Mind” launched my interest in African literature and how I thought “Petals of Blood” was still relevant today. Whereas the most visible forms of political colonialism have for the most part disappeared from the planet by the end of the millennium, several of its consequences remain with us.