Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms
Ngugi argues that 'Culture is the product of a people's history. But it also reflects that history, and embodies a whole set of values by which a people view themselves and their place in time and space.'. Developments in the last four hundred years have led to a situation where world cultures have been dominated by a handful of western nations. The West came to see itself as the centre of the universe. Cultural power, just as much as political and economic power, was controlled at the...
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Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of western nations.
AcknowledgementsPrefaceIFreeing Culture from Eurocentrism11Moving the Centre: Towards a Pluralism of Cultures22Creating Space for a Hundred Flowers to Bloom: The Wealth of a Common Global Culture123The Universality of Local Knowledge254Imperialism of Language: English, a Language for the World?305Cultural Dialogue for a New World426The Cultural Factor in the Neo-colonial Era47IIFreeing Culture from Colonial Legacies597The Writer in a Neo-colonial State608Resistance to Damnation: The Role of Intellectual Workers769The Role of the Scholar in the Development of African Literatures8210Post-colonial Politics and Culture8811In Moi's Kenya, History is Subversive9612From the Corridors of Silence: The Exile Writes Back10213Imperialism and Revolution: Movements for Social Change109IIIFreeing Culture from Racism11514The Ideology of Racism: War on Peace Within and Among Nations11615Racism in Literature12616Her Cook, her Dog: Karen Blixen's Africa13217Biggles, Mau Mau and I13618Black Power in Britain14219Many Years Walk to Freedom: Welcome Home Mandela!146IVMatigari, Dreams and Nightmares15320Life, Literature and a Longing for Home15421Matigari, and the Dreams of One East Africa159Index179
