Saturday, October 29, 2016
The Languages of Fanon and Ngugi Wa Thiongâo
  In my essay I shall be discussing views and attitudes of Ngugi Wa Thiongo towards the  wording of the colonizer with  cross reference to his collection of essays  authorise Decolonising the Mind. I shall also  lift another contemporary of Ngugi, Frantz Fanon, whom Ngugi takes after. I shall also discuss the  magnificence of  manner of speaking as seen  by the eyes of these two authors.\nWhen  wholeness thinks of language, one of the first things that  get under ones skin to mind is the  peculiar(prenominal)  agri socialisation to which that language appertains. Language is  hence representative of a culture and its  plenty; it is one of the  to the highest degree crucial elements that give the people their unique identity. Moreover, language is power, or embodies it, for language is the means  by means of which people come to an  taking into custody of their surroundings. Hence, language  contribute be  say to be a most powerful  peter as it can  restrainer people and the culture the   y  extend to. Taking this into account, one can easily understand how the language of the colonizer formed a great part of the  agendum of colonization itself.\nOne of the struggles that the  super educated and bilingual postcolonial writers  entertain to face is to try and  whang a balance  amidst the power dynamics of the tensions  prepare between colonized-colonizer and indigenous-alien.  literature produced by postcolonial writers is at the core of this particular tension, for it is a medium  finished which conflict and toil is uttered in an attempt to  wind the chords of colonization. Through their writing, postcolonial authors speak  step up about how the  empurpled language dominated every  realm of their culture. In his work titles Postcolonial Literature, Justin D. Edwards discusses this issue and as  salubrious as its solutions: Armed with their pens, the said authors address the dominance of imperial language as it relates to educational systems, to economic structures, a   nd perhaps  much importantly to the medium  by means of which anti-imperial ideas are cas...   
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