Thank you Sir, you have always shown other Afrikans writers to write in their own mother tongue .. why write in or communicate in our former colonizers tongue hence enabling neo-colonialism and enriching their cultures over ours.Decolonization is a must...
I checked gikuyu population is about 8 million.... good enough for a livelihood.....in gikuyu language.....in Singapore the local Tamil is less than 1 million......
[07:05] My experience meeting Vice-Chancellors from Nairobi in 2010 was quite different. Their vision was that graduates should first contribute to clean up the mess in the Kenyan civil service, left by decades of corruption and the dictatorship of Arab Moi (1967-1978). In practical disciplines like business, engineering, and applied sciences graduates need to have required competences, and international standards are the only relevant ones. Critical thinking, problem solving and originality are part of an international curriculum, but first basic skills must be learned. The context has changed substantially and 50 years after independence it is time to take responsibility, be smart and copy or import what is useful, while preserving identity.
I don't think anyone is debating whether or not colonial languages have beauty. The point is that indigenous languages are beautiful too and need to be empowered. To use someone else's language is, to some extent, to approach the world from their perspective.We validate our languages, cultures and identities when we write in our own languages.
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Thank you Sir, you have always shown other Afrikans writers to write in their own mother tongue .. why write in or communicate in our former colonizers tongue hence enabling neo-colonialism and enriching their cultures over ours.Decolonization is a must...
Thank you so much for posting this, this man is such an amazing and intellectual person, I wish I could have the chance to meet him myself one day.
"Even the best copy is still a copy"
brilliant!
I remember Petal of blood and others, kikuyu is rich that we need to understand more, just like any other languages
It's the human character that is faulty.... not the language 16/10/20
Ngugi thegio muno rathimwo muno
I checked gikuyu population is about 8 million.... good enough for a livelihood.....in gikuyu language.....in Singapore the local Tamil is less than 1 million......
Internet: “Bush telegraph”.......
Don't you first need a mind?
[07:05] My experience meeting Vice-Chancellors from Nairobi in 2010 was quite different. Their vision was that graduates should first contribute to clean up the mess in the Kenyan civil service, left by decades of corruption and the dictatorship of Arab Moi (1967-1978).
In practical disciplines like business, engineering, and applied sciences graduates need to have required competences, and international standards are the only relevant ones. Critical thinking, problem solving and originality are part of an international curriculum, but first basic skills must be learned.
The context has changed substantially and 50 years after independence it is time to take responsibility, be smart and copy or import what is useful, while preserving identity.
I believe all languages have beauty with in.......even the colonial English language 😂
I don't think anyone is debating whether or not colonial languages have beauty. The point is that indigenous languages are beautiful too and need to be empowered. To use someone else's language is, to some extent, to approach the world from their perspective.We validate our languages, cultures and identities when we write in our own languages.
What a terrible aura of intellectual peril