Ngugi wa Thiong'o
1938– · Kenyan · 20th-21st Century
Known for: Abandoned English for Gikuyu and spent a year in prison for it — the novelist who decolonized his own mind
Ngugi abandoned English and began writing in Gikuyu after his imprisonment by the Kenyan government. His memoir Decolonising the Mind argues that African writers must use African languages.
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