Decolonising the Mind

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o places language at the center of cultural and political power. His essays ask what happens when education and literary prestige reward writers for abandoning the languages through which their societies think, remember and make art.

This is a book for readers interested in schools, writing, translation and the connection between artistic choices and structures of domination. It invites discussion about whose audience literature serves and who gets to define intellectual achievement.