Decolonizing the Mind
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Studying the Language of the Obscure
When i was looking for graduate schools to go to, initially i wanted to go to a place where i could do african literature. But my department at the university of narobi quite clearly said, we don't want you to go to europe or to the united states to study afAfrican literature, because we can do that here. What they needed to study the language of the oppress. And this was part of the whole colonial mind sat, right? It was a very powrfor colonial idea. I will tell you whye it was powerful because the british did not have universities in africa, or the carybian until 19 forty nine. After the war, the
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