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Decolonising the Mind Wa Thiong'o Ngugi
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The famous Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o in his book “Decolonizing the mind” (1986) states that the European colonization of Africa “was effected through the sword and the bullet. Ajit Doval KC, Director VIF, stated that “Minds” will be the future tools of establishing control and therefore it is very important to understand how colonised the Indian mind today is. Yesterday I attended a workshop led by Sandew Hira from the International Institute for Scientific Research in the Netherlands and hosted by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. €�There were good and bad story-tellers. A good one could tell the same story over and over again, and it would always be fresh to us, the listeners. The title is a take-off on a book by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, “Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature” (1986). Panned at home by the middle-class elite – the products of the West's economic engineering project – Decolonising the Mind nevertheless gained cult-like status abroad. Ngũgĩ gave up writing in English. Posted on April 25, 2013 by sebweinmann — Leave a comment ↓. Introduction The complete title of this book reads: Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism. Abubakar said that as part of decolonising the minds of East Africans, Lake Victoria should be renamed Lake Jumuiya and the new name would symbolise the new spirit of unity in the region. Ngugi Wa Thiongo's “Decolonising the Mind” holds true in the present day as well where we have failed to carve out our own subjectivity that would be perfectly divested of the Western thought of conduct and behaviour. Armed with just one copy of his book, I told him about how “Decolonising The Mind” launched my interest in African literature and how I thought “Petals of Blood” was still relevant today.