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Something torn and new : an African renaissance / Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Decolonization--Africa.
Decolonization.
Africa--Civilization.
Africa.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (177 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : BasicCivitas Books, c2009.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
""One of Africa's greatest writers" (San Francisco Chronicle) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language?and African culture itself
Contents:
CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1 Dismembering Practices: Planting European Memory in Africa; Chapter 2 Re-membering Visions; Chapter 3 Memory, Restoration, and African Renaissance; Chapter 4 From Color to Social Consciousness: South Africa in the Black Imagination; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; INDEX
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-148) and index.
ISBN:
1-282-46025-0
9786612460258
0-7867-4419-7
OCLC:
426058578

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