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Ngugi wa Thiong'o Moving the Center

World-renowned as a novelist, playwright, and critic whose oeuvre forms a bridge between earlier African writing and a younger generation of post-colonial writers, UC Irvine Professor Ngugi wa Thio...  
 
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rabet03 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Knowing I will be bashed anyway, While other African literary giants like Soyinka and Achebe speak English without a prominent accent, how come Ngugi speaks Kikuyu-English? "Fakoti (faculty), Hoteo (hotel)" How come?
kahunyokahwai (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Languages or tribes have no problem the problem is how we use them to create an aura of superiority against the other.
If u r a Kenyan, go to YouTube. Search for the -Swahili mass in mass I & II
There is no mother tongue that is more superior than the other (Ambassador R Ogego)
kahunyokahwai (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Are you a Kenyan by any chance?
Each tribe is/was a language & each tribe was a state.
The problem is:
1. That the colonialists managed to draw very sharp edges btn the tribes.
2. They demonized and inferriorized the native languages so their language can be supreme.
planetolusola (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Ngugi Wa Thiong's of the African literature series. A literary giant of our time.

"Weep not my child, weep not my darling. With these kisses let me wipe away your tears"
biorhazard (4 months ago) Show Hide
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we can't simply eliminate the concept of tribe as it's the backbone of our individual identities and without it we can't maintain our cultures. we won't have a cultural identity but we have to take and forge other cultures into whatever works for us....
jorgetafi (6 months ago) Show Hide
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Which is the correct pronunciation of his name?
YinYangTzu (3 months ago) Show Hide
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N - Googi Wah  Thee-on-go

I believe
bensmith3200 (8 months ago) Show Hide
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"Petals of Blood" is one of the most powerful books I've ever read.
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What i Like with Reading ngugi work is that he is so deep. Ngugi impact in Africa may not be realize in near future but his work will guide the leadership that will propel Africa back to her greatness
Damunyeusi (10 months ago) Show Hide
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Congrats, Prof!! This is work of great erudition. We shoudn't blame "tribe" for the current strife in most parts of Africa. "Tribes" existed in Africa long before the advent of colonization and colonialism but at least communities existed in relative peace! The arbitrary colonial and colonialistic drawing of boundaries and the introduction of tribalism is what ail Africa. This is exacerbated by African leaders who have negatively used "tribes" for selfish political mileage. Peace!!

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