Decolonizing the Mind
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The Irony of Studying English Literature
The idea was it was going to civilize you in some way to study the great European classics. It was a very powerful colonial idea and I'll tell you why it was powerful. The British did not have universities in Africa or the Caribbean until 1949. After the war, the colonial government decided that it needed to train a new class of local people,. Local elites, who could replace them and continue to do the work of civilization if you want.
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