Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a novelist, postcolonial theorist and distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine.

09.26.2020

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Anyone Living in a Colonial Society Can Relate to Black Lives Matter

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, author of Decolonising the Mind, is one of the most important African intellectuals writing about the politics of post-colonialism today. He told Jacobin how the colonial legacy in Kenya shaped his politics — and why language remains a decisive political battleground.