A 100 Languages, A 100 Flowers RIF Podcast ep. 21 with special guest Nick Creary

In this episode, we invite on historian Dr. Nick Creary to talk about African languages, literatures, and oratures as we recognize the passing of the great Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Ngũgĩ is a Gĩkũyũ theorist and writer who shifted the landscape of decolonization in African literature and across the global South. We talk about the psychological violence done by colonial language education, resistance to linguistic imperialism, and much more.

References:

Book: Moving the Centre, the Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (https://archive.org/details/movingcentrestru0000ngug)

Book: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonizing the Mind, the Politics of Language in African Literature

Book: Globalectics, Theory and the Politics of Knowing

Speech: https://phbookfestival.blogspot.com/2012/07/ngugi-wa-thiong-linguistic-power-sharing.html?m=1

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