Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o [wa Thiong'o, Ngugi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2011-01-15T08:00:00+00:00

Notes

1See also Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ On Literary Content Working paper no. 340, IDS, Nairobi, April 1979. He places his discussion of the literary content at Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Educational and Cultural Centre in a class analysis of the village community.

2Jomo Kenyatta Facing Mount Kenya, London 1938.

3I am indebted to Wasambo Were for the comparison between The Empty Space of Peter Brook’s title, and the practice of African literature during a discussion I had with him on Theatre in Kenya in London 1983.

4Compare also with Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel, the exchange between Lakunle, the school teacher who quotes abuses from the Shorter Oxford Dictionary and Sidi, the illiterate village woman who presumably speaks Yoruba. In what language is Lakunle speaking: Yoruba or English? What about Sidi? In the text they are both speaking English, of course.

5Ngũgĩ and Ngũgĩ I Will Marry When I Want, Nairobi and London 1982, pp. 21–9

6Karl Marx Capital, Vol. I, Chap. VII, p. 177.

7Ngũgĩ and Ngũgĩ I Will Marry When I Want, Nairobi and London 1982, p. 39.

8Daily Nation 22 January 1982.

9The Standard 29 January 1982. The two features by The Daily Nation and The Standard carry many other comments and direct quotes from participants which give an insight into the popular base of theatre.

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