Decolonizing the Mind
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African Writers Are Committed to Political Change and Transformation
By the time i got the university in the late 19 seventies, the government was beginning to become much more impressive. By the 19 or 19 eightys, writers were being imprisoned. But most african writers had developed a very powerful sense that literature was committed to political change and transformation. Now, i heard a story that you nearly got arrested in kenya at one point when you were a student. And they were rounding up academics. Oh, yes.
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