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achebe
Title: achebe
Category: History
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achebe
Ngugi wa Thiong’o had a goal of not being associated with the English language and starting to write in his native language Gikuyu. In his mind English in parts of Africa was like a process in wiping out the memories of pre-colonial cultures and history, as well as putting in a new fashion of colonialism. Ngugi wrote Decolonising the Mind, with a mental state that of turning back to the roots of Gikuyu traditions. …showed first 75 words of 1174 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1174 total…that just flat out refused to adapt to the foreign ways. They believed that real African literature must be written in African. They realized that the African writers had to come to the realization that educated African writing were being lead in a direction that know one would follow.
Finally in 1977, Ngugi saw the light and began to write in his native tongue once more. He did this for the future children of Kenya.
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