Decolonization, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, & Beyond

Africa World Now Project · Mar 12, 2018 · 59m

Today…we will explore the work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o with Dr. Josh Myers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (b. 1938) is one of the African world’s most prolific writers, thinkers, cultural workers, play-write, activist. Growing up in colonial Kenya, his dream of a free Africa has shaped his works. In 1977, with ‘Ngaahika Ndeenda', Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o sought to liberate the theatrical process from what he considered “the general bourgeois education system.” Despite its success, the authoritarian Kenyan regime shut it down and…