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NEW YORK (AP) - At age 87, Kenyan author Ng~ug~i wa Thiong'o hopes he can summon the strength for
at least one more book.
He would call it "Normalized Abnormality," about
the lasting scars of colonialism, whether in Africa, Europe
or North America, that are widely accepted today.
"I will write it if I have the energy," Ng~ug~i, who has struggled
with kidney problems in recent years, said during a telephone interview.
One of the world's most revered writers and a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize, Ng~ug~i remains an energetic
speaker with opinions no less forceful than they have been for
the past 60 years. Since emerging as a leading
voice of post-colonial Africa, he has been calling for Africans to
reclaim their language and culture and denouncing
the tyranny of Kenya's leaders. His best known books
include the nonfiction "Decolonizing the Mind"
and the novel "Devil on the Cross," one of many books that
he wrote in his native Gik~uy~u.
Ng~ug~i has been praised by critics and
writers worldwide, and imprisoned, beaten, banned and otherwise threatened in his native country.
Since the 1970s, he has mostly lived overseas, emigrating
to England and eventually settling in California, where he is
a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of
California, Irvine.
"I miss Kenya, because they gave me everything," he says.
"All of my writings are based in Kenya. ... I owe my writing to Kenya. It's very hard for me not to be able to return to my homeland."
Ng~ug~i has published a handful of books over the past
decade, including the novel "The Perfect Nine" and the prison memoir "Wrestling with the Devil," and was otherwise in the news
in 2022 when his son, M~ukoma wa Ng~ug~i, alleged that he
had physically abused his first wife, Nyambura, who died in 1996 ("I can say categorically itВґs not true," Ng~ug~i wa Thiong'o responds).
His U.S. publisher, The New Press, has just released "Decolonizing Language," which
the author praises as a "beautiful" title. "Decolonizing Language" includes essays and poems written between 2000 and 2019, with subjects ranging from language and education to such friends and heroes as
Nelson Mandela, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author
whose 1958 novel, "Things Fall Apart," is considered by many the starting
point for modern African literature. Achebe also helped launch
Ng~ug~i's career by showing a manuscript of an early novel, "Weep Not, Child," to publisher William Heinemann, who featured it
in the landmark African Writers series.
In one essay from "Decolonizing Language," Ng~ug~i declares
that writers must "be the voice of the voiceless. They have to give voice to silence, especially the silence imposed on a people by an oppressive state." During his AP interview,
Ng~ug~i discussed his concerns about Kenya, the "empowerment" of knowing your native language,
his literary influences and his mixed feelings about the United States.
Ng~ug~i's comments on subjects have been condensed for
clarity and brevity.
"In Kenya, even today, we have children and their parents who cannot speak their mother tongues, or the parents know their mother tongues and don't want their children to know their mother tongue. They are very happy when they speak English and even happier when their children don't know their mother tongue. That's why I call it mental colonization."
"I am fine (with speaking English). After all, I am a distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, in Irvine. So it's not that I mind English, but I don't want it to be my primary language, OK? This is how I put it: For me, and for everybody, if you know all the languages of the world, and you don't know your mother tongue, that's enslavement, mental enslavement. But if you know your mother tongue, and add other languages, that is empowerment."
"I very much like the African American writers. I discovered them at Makerere University (in Uganda), and Caribbean writers like George Lamming were very important to me. The writers of the Harlem Renaissance fired my imagination and made me feel I could be a writer, too. ... At the Makerere conference (the African Writers Conference, in 1962), I met with Langston Hughes, and oh my God it was so great!. Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance! To shake hands with a world famous writer was very very important to me."
"On the one hand, I am grateful to be here and to have a job at a California university, as a distinguished professor. I appreciate that. But I was coming from a country which was a white seller colony, and I can't forget that when I'm here. People don't even talk about it here. They talk about it as if it were normal. So we talk about the American Revolution. But is it not Native Americans who were colonized? So I am very fascinated by this normalized abnormality."