The politics of language

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In Writing Against Neocolonialism, published in 1986, the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o found himself grappling with the question of language, and the uncertainties about how literature was to be operationalised. For while the works of Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and Sembene Ousmane, for instance, were incendiary and “assertive in tone . . . (about) Africa explaining itself, speaking for itself, and interpreting its past”, the languages that the writers used were often those of the former colonial languages, English, French or otherwise. Political independence did not mean complete independence, whatever the case the former colonial master would retain its deep hold, not just of the economy but also in the intellectual sphere. This has been a concern for generations of postcolonial writers and intellectuals, its heritage including those such as Frantz Fanon and Albert Me…