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Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance

Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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East Africa

Kenya

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Contemporary

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English

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Ngũgĩ's argument that the dismemberment of Africa — cultural, linguistic, psychological — requires a counter-practice of 're-membering' through African languages and pan-Africanism.

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Ngũgĩ's most accessible theoretical work; a synthesis of his decades of writing on African language and decolonization

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Ngũgĩ's argument that the dismemberment of Africa — cultural, linguistic, psychological — requires a counter-practice of 're-membering' through African languages and pan-Africanism. Ngũgĩ's most accessible theoretical work; a synthesis of his decades of writing on African language and decolonization

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