A Literary Hub Most Anticipated BookBrilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary lettersOne of the greatest writers of our time.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, bestselling authorNgg wa Thiongo is a towering figure in African literature, and his novels A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child; and Petals of Blood are modern classics. Emerging from a literary scene that flourished in the 1950s and 60s during the last years of colonialism in Africa, he is now known not just as a novelistone who, in the late 70s, famously stopped writing novels in English and turned to the language he grew up speaking, Gkybut as a major postcolonial theorist.In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngg gives us a series of essays that build on the revolutionary ideas about language and its constructive role in national culture, history,...
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