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Synopsis
Ngugi describes this book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in the teaching of literature. 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...."
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..."the single most coherent and forceful intervention to date in a debate which has been going on for a quarter of a century."-The International Journal of African Historical Studies
?...the single most coherent and forceful intervention to date in a debate which has been going on for a quarter of a century.?-The International Journal of African Historical Studies
.,."the single most coherent and forceful intervention to date in a debate which has been going on for a quarter of a century."-The International Journal of African Historical Studies
."..the single most coherent and forceful intervention to date in a debate which has been going on for a quarter of a century."-The International Journal of African Historical Studies
..".the single most coherent and forceful intervention to date in a debate which has been going on for a quarter of a century."-The International Journal of African Historical Studies
About the Author
Ngugi is world famous for his novels from Weep Not, Child to Matigari and the impact of his plays, especially in Gikuyu, which led to his detention in Kenya. He is now Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies in New York University. This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre.
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- PublisherPearson Education Limited
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0435080164
- ISBN 13 9780435080167
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages114
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