Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

Ngøgð describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature . . .'

'. . . the lectures on which this book is based have given me the chance to pull together in a connected and coherent form the main issues on the language question in literature . . . .'

Ngøgð was regarded by the younger generation as probably the most important contemporary writer ...