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

Writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has always questioned the literary tradition written in colonial languages, analysing the dynamics and the functioning off colonised societies and their relationship with the colonisers. Thiong'o defends the mother tongue as a weapon against linguistic imperialism, and recommends decolonising minds and the imagination, in Africa and Europe alike. We talk with him on the occasion of the publication in Catalan of his book "La revolució vertical" (Raig Verd, 2019).

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