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“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.”

― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
tags: africa, colonialism, culture, decolonisation, decolonising-the-mind, history, language, ngugi-wa-thing-o, post-colonial
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