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A Few Words From Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...

Monday November 16, 2009
"Christianity and Western civilization -- what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!"(James) Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenyan Novelist, from Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neocolonial Kenya, Africa Research & Publications, 1983.

"An oppressed class, or nation, that believes in itself, in its history, in its destiny, in its capacity to change the scheme of things, will obviously be the stronger in its class and national struggles for political and economic survival."(James) Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenyan Novelist, from Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Heinemann, 1993.

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