Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: “Europe and the West must also be decolonised” 

This man is a legend. Hope he gets the Nobel one day.

I met him at a book shop, lucky enough to have photo of both of together. Ngugi has such a gentle voice, he is so harmless and such a peaceful nature. it was amazing to be in his presence and something I treasure. I started to learn to draw after I retired and, be was amongst he first person I wanted to draw. I am not good by a long way, but, during the time of trying draw Ngugi, was one of the most wonderful times I have had. ...and just to say, even if is only five people who speak your language.... such an amazing person.... oh gosh, I so love this man.

He is one of two literary greats still alive. Wole Soyinka and Thiong'o I love listening to both of them

When I was in Grade 11, in 2013, my friends and I met this man at Lusaka Play House... He's such a legend

So heart warming to hear him speak on Caribbean literature 🖤

This man is my idol. I love him SO much.

This man has written for me. For those who have been forced to loose our culture and and language and feel so lost. I am eternally grateful.

An amazing man and an incredible writer. He deserves far more recognition.

"Authoritarian regimes want to limit the capacity of people to imagine different futures", great!

Yes we must embrace our African languages 👏🏿👏🏿

"Authoritarian governments suppress writers because they want to suppress the capacity of people to imagine different futures." "To picture a different world, different possibilities, is very important for the human. Literature, all art, imagination..." " Read African, South American, Asian Lit to understand present world, it captures the reality of the world." Now I'm wondering who to read about what's going on in Hong Kong. Thousands are leaving H.K. for the U.K.

Man thank you for your contribution

One of the world’s most important public intellectuals right there.

Glad to see your face as well as your voice, although my University Thesis was based on the trials of Dedan Kehmathi, i was dying to see you. Thank God your books are interesting to read, you get pulled into it.

Thank God, for a man like Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o who's fighting for the right of native languages in colonized societies to assert themselves.

Today..06/06/2022 ngugi wa thiongo has won PEN award💪⚽⚽

I have practically read and taught most of his literally works.

Ngugi wa thiongo is great n even chinua achebe also

He deserve a Nobel.🥰🥰🥰

Splendid!!

I like the way you wrote your novels Ngugi

Very wise words for a decolonial future

Take love from Bangladesh ❤

I understand now ; cuz language , literature and culture are indissociable , Europhone african literature is just european literature producted by africans , european culture producted by africans , european glory producted by africans ; the same way africans works and commodities products european wealth . And it's will continue as long as we will write in European languages . It's the same case for europhone african education and school.

We share the same name.am going to change mine soon to ngugi wa githunguri

Good seed will never get lost

Oh love these writers

why was this so interesting

“As longterm participants in the national liberation struggle of American Indians,” I said, “we have been forced into knowing the nature of colonialism very well. Along with you, we understand that the colonization we experience finds its origin in the matrix of European culture. But, apparently unlike you, we also understand that in order for Europe to do what it has done to us-in fact, for Europe to become ‘Europe’ at all-it first had to do the same thing to all of you. In other words, to become a colonizing culture, Europe had first to colonize itself. To the extent that this is true, I find it fair to say that if our struggle must be explicitly anticolonial in its form, content and aspirations, yours must be even more so. You have, after all, been colonized far longer than we, and therefore much more completely. In fact, your colonization has by now been consolidated to such an extent that-with certain notable exceptions, like the Irish and Euskadi (Basque) nationalists-you no longer even see yourselves as having been colonized. The result is that you’ve become self-colonizing, conditioned to be so self-identified with your own oppression that you’ve lost your ability to see it for what it is, much less to resist it in any coherent way." - Ward Churchill, Acts of Rebellion

What about Latinamerican literature written in Spanish, Portuguese or French??? guess it's the same he's talking about. Language of the colonisers but at the same time the only languages that can be used to make the African literature well known. Another option would be to have good translators from African languages to other languages

This whole thread is in English. The entire comments section.

I respect this man but it looks like hes repeating himslef