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Still having a good time with Ngugi Wa Thiongo. Today, I will share excerpts of Decolonising the Mind that have more than tickled my brain. We start with something from the preface. If in these essays I criticise the Afro-European (or EuroAfrican) choice of our linguistic praxis, it is not to take away from the talent and the genius of those who have written in English, French or Portuguese. On the contrary, I am lamenting a neocolonial situation which has meant the European bourgeoisie once again stealing our talents and geniuses as they have stolen our economies. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Europe stole art treasures from Africa to decorate their houses and museums; in the twentieth century Europe is stealing the treasures of the mind to enrich their languages and cultures. Africa needs back its economy, its politics, its culture, its languages and all its patriotic writers. - Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Decolonising the mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Pg xii

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