Professor Ngugi wa Thio’go shakes hands with Nicole Hunter, one of the attendants from USA during the 6th Pan-African Reading Conference for All which was held in Dar es Salaam, last month.
Professor Ngugi wa Thion’go showing journalists one of his books and explained it into details when he was asked to clarify
Professor Ngigi wa Thion’go reading one of his books which were on display in the shelf during the conference at UDSM.
Professor Ngugi showing to journalists one of his 20 books entitled “Decolonizing the Mind” which he wrote it in 1984. It’s in this book whereby he urged African continent not to be dependent in everything and instead get away from colonial mentality.
According to him, the prevailing power relationships of languages and culture, has to be challenged and hopefully even shaken up, that’s why he prefers to translate almost his more than 20 books he has written as reading is conventional. This was his personal thinking behind his two books he compiled entitled “Decolonizing the mind in 1984 and also Re-Membering Africa” the book which was launched during the conference. However, in view of this fact, he has urged his fellow writers to publish their books in their local languages as this is the only way of promoting African languages which according to him is likely to face a destiny of dinosaurs if care would not be taken and keep on maintaining the mentality of depending on other people’s languages. Recalling back, Professor Ngugi said that in his first prescription was that writers from marginalized cultures and languages had the duty and responsibility of making themselves visible in their own languages the way he did in 1978 when he broke with as the primary means of his writing, particularly in fiction and drama.
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