Manifesto published in 1986, Decolonising the Mind asserts that decolonisation goes through language: one does not liberate one’s mind with that of the oppressor. The author pleads there for a return to African languages as a tool of cultural emancipation.
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- « Decolonising the Mind », Open Library, https://openlibrary.org/search.json?author=Ngugi+wa+Thiong%27o