Ngugi's Tour De Force Was Eloquent Call for Mental Decolonisation

Wow, what a week! I hope to live to tell my children and grandchildren all about Ngugi wa Thiong'o's visit to South Africa to give the Steve Biko Lecture at the University of Cape Town. I hope to live to tell them about the electrifying moment as Ngugi held an audience of 2000 people spellbound. It was an incredible tour de force on the intellectual history of SA and its linkages with renaissance thought. Building on the work of another brilliant intellectual, Ntongela Masilela, Ngugi went deep into the history of the late 19th century and early 20th century intellectuals Tiyo Soga, John Tengo Jabavu, WB Rubusana, and Priscilla Maxeke.