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Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Mukoma Wa Ngugi: On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words
A Close Reading of Sonia Sanchez's "Poem at Thirty"
By
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
| July 17, 2019
On the Rise—and Cost—of the African Novel in English
Why Isn't There a Good Igbo Translation of
Things Fall Apart
?
By
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
| April 9, 2018
Mukoma Wa Ngugi: What
Decolonizing the Mind
Means Today
"The Work of Linguistic Decolonization Cannot Be Done By Writers Alone"
By
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
| March 23, 2018
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