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Decolonising the Mind Wa Thiong'o Ngugi
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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. I remember on the slave ships how they brutalized our very souls. €�Every time I hear the crack of a whip, my blood runs cold. The phrase is "decolonizing [one's] mind". The challenge is that we need to start by Decolonising the minds of AfricAns. €�There were good and bad story-tellers. Which is partly the source of Wainana's annoyance at Kenya's - Africa's - patron de lettres, and his inconvenient book, Decolonising the Mind. Kapoor was speaking on the topic 'Decolonising the Indian mind' at a Vimarsha talk in Delhi on March 16. Decolonising the Mind is about influencing people's race and culture by taking authoritative control. Introduction The complete title of this book reads: Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism. I've been thinking about a phrase I've often seen at one of my favourite blogs, Womanist Musings. Posted on April 25, 2013 by sebweinmann — Leave a comment ↓. The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. He described how African authors wrote in English to reach a wide audience. The Kenyan author, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, wrote this book in 1986. Influenced by Professor Ngugi wa Thiongo's Decolonising the Mind, Musodza has been an advocate for the sustained use of African languages.