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But African languages refused to die. They would not simply go to the way of Latin to become the fossils for linguistic archaeology to dig up, classi… - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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About Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (5 January 1938 – 28 May 2025) was a Kenyan author of fiction and nonfiction. He used to publish in the English language but later primarily wrote in his native language of Gikuyu. He often wrote on topics regarding colonialism, language, and theatre.
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James Ngugi
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James Thiong'o Ngugi
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Ngugi wa Thiongo
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Koina talked of seeing the ghosts of the colonial past still haunting Independent Kenya. And it was true that those now marching in the streets of Nairobi were not the soldiers of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army but of the King’s African Rifles, the very colonial forces who had been doing on the battlefield what Jackson was doing in churches.
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