Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Memories of Who We Are from irvine video Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 10 min 99 sec ✓ Published: 13-Oct-2015
Description: “Memory is what makes us who we are,” says Kenyan Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – a frequent contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature – in this video about how colonizers sought to erase the memories of the natives by severing their linguistic connections.nnThe colonizers played the game of “power-politics” by tampering with the memories of the natives and instead planting new ones – those of the colonizer: “You literally erase the memory of who they are.” As an example of this, pla
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