#NgũgĩwaThiongo had privilege to spend time with #Ngũgĩ in Canada in 1990 as I prepared to visit the then Frontline States in Southern Africa, as part of Anti-Apartheid NGO project - When you’re there, don't sleep, just listen, absorb...everything, you can sleep when you're back' - the revolutionary writer from Kenya turns 85 today #HappyBirthday (portrait #CCCB Barcelona)
‘In colonial conquest, language did to the mind what the sword did to the bodies of the colonized’ - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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