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“The choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to a people's definition of themselves in relation to their natural and social environment, indeed in relation to the entire universe.”
Source: Decolonising the Mind (London: James Currey, 1986), chapter 1
Context The book announced his farewell to English as a language for his own writing, after his 1977–78 detention in Kenya and his turn to writing in Gĩkũyũ.
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