The abilities and potential of our women are enslaved to the typewriter, the bar or the beds in those hotels we have put up in every corner of the country for the pleasure of tourists. How insulting to our national dignity that our women should have become mere flowers to decorate the beds of foreignContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Kenyan Women as Tourist Attractions (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
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RKS African Literature: RELIGION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
On the farm he’ll build churches or mosques, depending on the religious inclinations of the workers. He will employ priests. Every Sunday the workers will read sermons that will instruct them that the system of milking human sweat, human blood and human brains-the system of the robbery of human labour power and human skills isContinue reading “RKS African Literature: RELIGION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: English Cultural Imperialism (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
“You talk as if you knew I came from the university, and it is true. I am from there. I’m a kind of research student in culture. I’m a junior research fellow in African culture. Our culture…sorry I mean our culture. That is what I call English cultural imperialism. Cultural imperialism is mother to theContinue reading “RKS African Literature: English Cultural Imperialism (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
