Ngugi Wa Thiong'O’s scientific contributions

... In fact, we can go as far as stating that colonialism has had significant generational impact on the development of South African people's sense of identities and values of themselves. In such a process democracy, unity, clear and accepted ideology must be based on de-colonial perspectives (Wa Thiong'o, 1993). The African liberation struggles which led to South Africa's democracy in 1994 should be the stairway to decolonial epistemic perspectives that provide the facilitation in a process leading to democratic decolonisation (Wa Thiong'o, 1993). ...

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A legal perspective on language, oppression and naming practices in South Africa

... By engaging in linguistic disobedience, wa Thiong'o excludes himself from the 'magic of the Western idea of modernity' and its 'ideals of humanity' (Mignolo 2011a, 161). His lack of patience with 'feeble' African men of letters (wa Thiong'o 1986(wa Thiong'o , 1997 who have rushed to defend the language of the centre, and appropriated it as their own at the expense of indigenous language, speaks of his disappointment with the African community's keepers of identity and knowledge. ...

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Language as being in the politics of Ngugi wa Thiong’o

... A few scholars have criticised Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's position on language as linguistic determinism (Mazrui, 1993), which claims that a person's ontology or self being is dependent on language and that language embodies the different forms of cultural realities or metaphysics. Others (such as Cook & Okenimkpe, 1997;Mwangi, 2004;Vakunta, 2010) have criticised Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's linguistic stance based on ideological grounds. They argue that he is out of touch with African mainstream political views on language and at times even accuse him of intellectual hypocrisy (Vakunta, 2010). ...

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The Politics of Memory: NLP Models as Liberating Artifacts