Decolonizing the Mind
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Are You a Student of the University of Nairobi?
Most african writers had developed a very powerful sense that literature was committed to political change and transformation. In canoutse, the major figure was in gogewa thiono, who had come back to teach at the university of naro. The government declared that he was behind most of the anti-government activities. So anyone who had been a student of goga or was associated with him was under suspicion. And we ended up escaping, going abroad. If you could, you couldn't go back. I didn't go back to kanon ntill the 19 nineties. i ended up doing my pistat northwestern.
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