Something torn and new
Subtitle: an African renaissance
By: Ngũgĩ  wa Thiong'o.
Publisher: BasicCivitas Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780465009466
Subjects: Decolonization -- Africa; Africa -- Civilization
Description: Novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. Here, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible force was Europhonism: the replacement of native names, languages, and identities with European ones. The result was the dismemberment of African memory. Seeking to remember language in order to revitalize it, Ngugi's quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, this book is a cri de coeur to save Africa's cultural future.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dismembering practices; title: Remembering visions; title: Memory, restoration and African renaissance; title: From color to social consciousness: South Africa in the black imagination.