Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o "Decolonising the Mind" (Part 1 of 2)

[@lunarmagpie619]

So glad to see you covering this one! I teach writing to first year college students, and these discussions are some of the most complicated and necessary to have.

[@ItHadToBeSaid]

Great point about how decolonization is not about going back to the past but creating the future. We can't go back, but we can create a decolonized future.

[@lukedmoss]

Thanks for this. I'm still finding ways to embody language in a way that is actively anti-abstract and resists the colonization inherent in my Christian/middle class education.

[@demimathathi7628]

Not a fan of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's rejection of Christianity nor of your 'interest' in Queer studies... But I wrote you both a short(from what I could glean online) biography in Gĩkũyũ language Wikipedia (my first language) ki.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Guignion

[@rayan5150]

The first part of your comment was so unnecessary and undermined a nice act you did.

[@dethkon]

My mind is colonized by termites. I’ve been eating boric acid but nothing seems to help. 😢

[@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine]

Reversing your mind within the mind by reading critical ontological continental philosophy into a chemical lobotomy?