Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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Cover

Title Page

Contents

Part One: Decolonizing Language

1. Decolonizing Education

2. The Body of Knowledge

3. Between Enslavement and Empowerment

4. The Magic Fountain

5. The Modern Patron: The Role of the University in a Global Community

6. Makerere Dreams

Part Two: Voices of Prophecy

7. Abdilatif Abdalla and the Voice of Prophecy

8. Chinua Achebe: The Spirit Lives

9. The Global Kenyan: A Tribute to Ali Mazrui

10. Mazrui and Achebe: The Literary Artist and the Political Scientist

11. Wole Soyinka: The Conscience of Africa

12. Mĩcere Mũgo: In Kenyan History, Literature, and Thought

13. Grace Ogot: My Literary Sister, Kenya’s Literary Star

14. Nadine Gordimer: A Tribute from a Kindred Spirit

15. The Three Js: Jomo, Jaramogi, and “James”

16. Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus

17. Mandela Comes Home

18. Henry Chakava: A Model of Development in Africa

19. Call Her Molara O: Pioneer in Dialectical African Feminism

20. The African Writer as a Prophet and Social Critic in Contemporary Times

Notes

About the Author

Publishing in the Public Interest

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas