Colonialism imposed its control of the social production of wealth through military conquest and subsequent political dictatorship. But its most impo… - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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Colonialism imposed its control of the social production of wealth through military conquest and subsequent political dictatorship. But its most important area of domination was the mental universe of the colonised, the control, through culture, of how people perceived themselves and their relationship to the world. Economic and political control can never be complete or effective without mental control. To control a people's culture is to control their tools of self-definition in relationship to others.