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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26542364 Title: Moving the centre : the struggle for cultural freedoms Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo Publisher: London : Portsmouth, N.H. : J. Currey ; Heinemann, 1993. ISBN/ISSN: 085255530X 9780852555309 0435080792 9780435080792 OCLC:26542364

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Moving the centre : the struggle for cultural freedoms

Author:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher:	London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1993.
Series:	Studies in African literature.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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ISBN:	085255530X 9780852555309 0435080792 9780435080792
OCLC Number:	26542364
Notes:	A collection of talks and essays, created between 1980 and 1992, and translated from Kikuyu by the author. Includes index.
Description:	xviii, 184 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:	Moving the centre: towards a pluralism of cultures -- Creating space for a hundred flowers to bloom: the wealth of a common global culture -- The universality of local knowledge -- Imperialism of language: English, a language for the world? -- Cultural dialogue for a new world -- The cultural factor in the neo-colonial era -- The writer in a neo-colonial state -- Resistance to damnation: the role of intellectual workers -- The role of the scholar in the development of African liteatures -- Post-colonial politics and culture -- In Moi's Kenya, history is subversive -- From the corridors of silence: the exile writes back -- Imperialism and revolution: movements for social change -- The ideology of racism: war on peace within and among nations -- Racism in literature -- Her cook, her dog: Karen Blixen's Africa -- Biggles, Mau Mau and I -- Black power in Britain -- Many years walk to freedom: welcome home Mandela! -- Life, literature and a longing for home -- Matigari, and the dreams of one East Africa.
Series Title:	Studies in African literature.
Responsibility:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.
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