Decolonizing the Mind
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The Importance of Literature in Political Change
Most African writers had developed a very powerful sense that literature was committed to political change and transformation. In Kenya, I would say the major figure was in Gogibwa, Theongo, who had come back to teach at the University of Nairobi. They were arrested because the coup attempt failed, but then the government decided that actually the masterminds of this event were former students from the university. And so the government kind of declared that anyone who had studied in the departments of literature, history and law from 1974 to 1982 was implicated one way or the other.
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