“In Kenya, even today, we have children and their parents who cannot speak their mother tongues, or the parents know their mother tongues and don’t want their children to know their mother tongue. They are very happy when they speak English and even happier when their children don’t know their mother tongue. That’s why I call it mental colonization.” In one essay from “Decolonizing Language,” Ng~ug~i declares that writers must “be the voice of the voiceless. They have to give voice to silence, especially the silence imposed on a people by an oppressive state.” During his AP interview, Ng~ug~i discussed his concerns about Kenya, the “empowerment” of knowing your native language, his literary influences and his mixed feelings about the United States.

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By focusing on behavior change and incorporating psychological insights, policymakers can effectively address environmental challenges and drive sustainable outcomes. Understanding public behavior is key to designing policies that not only have the intended impact but also promote long-term behavior change for a more sustainable futur One of the world’s most revered writers and a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize, Ng~ug~i remains an energetic speaker with opinions no less forceful than they have been for the past 60 years.

Since emerging as a leading voice of post-colonial Africa, he has been calling for Africans to reclaim their language and culture and denouncing the tyranny of Kenya’s leaders. His best known books include the nonfiction “Decolonizing the Mind” and the novel “Devil on the Cross,” one of many books that he wrote in his native Gik~uy~u. Ng~ug~i has published a handful of books over the past decade, including the novel “The Perfect Nine” and the prison memoir “Wrestling with the Devil,” and was otherwise in the news in 2022 when his son, M~ukoma wa Ng~ug~i, alleged that he had physically abused his first wife, Nyambura, who died in 1996 (“I can say categorically it´s not true,” Ng~ug~i wa Thiong’o responds).