Thank you for this post and thank you to my family for allowing me to speak and think and walk something other than english. I was born in London, my first accent was a british one but as I became more grown, I realized my culture and learned the voice and words of MY people. In learning my tongue, I walked different, stood different, I could eat differently and dance and live outside of the colonialist that world keep his knee on my neck or put to my back when he was tired of me. Instead i saw who and what I was and I thought differently... in my tongue, in my voice. It is a beginning.

I like and love his teachings. wishing this was happening in one of Kenyan university. An example of the big losses African leaders has being causing to their people.

Thanks for your service oh Ngungi wa Thiong’o may God repay you in eternal abundance

So proud of our elder Ngugi wa Thiongo. Thank you for what you have shared with us. You have done so much for us which we don't yet understand. Ubarikiwe sana son of Afrika.

Brilliant! This man has just become my favorite person speaking on Afrakan matters. Afraka must be Afraka and not Europe. Nothing European should replace anything Afrakan otherwise we have lost ourselves and are operating with a false system, which is the mind of strangers. I have to get his book now!

I tkink I've found my favorite novelist. He has demonstrated that truth can be told in a humorus way. The author has a great sense of humor.

Yeah, this was a brilliant talk. I love how his deep humanity is what informs his intellect and academic construction of historical events.

I'm speechless, every African child aught to read hear this!

I remember when he gave a similar talk while I was in high school (which is his alma matter btw). However, then I could barely appreciate the profundity of his words, and, in fact, felt somewhat conflicted by his 'scathing criticisms of my Westernization'. I believe I've undergone quite the journey of personal growth since then and as I gradually awaken to my African identity, albeit using a European naming system, I see what he says. I'm fortunate to be Gikuyu as well, for I can access his literary works in my native language. It is quite unfortunate that our postcolonial governments will have us believe that our ethnic identities are the cause of the neverending chaos in our nations, and are only good when condemning decidedly 'anti-African nonissues' such as LGBTQ+ rights and gender equality. I recently watched an interview between James Baldwin and Niki Giovanni, and in it, Baldwin talked about 'understanding what you have been given'. It beautifully ties to what Prof. Ngugi says is the purpose of memory: not a static historical concept, but the very basis from which the future can be projected. Beautiful talk!

This man is Genuis

This is a great man.

I FEEL SMARTER THAN WHEN I GOT HERE. LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF NGUNGI....LA LUTA CONTINUA

very interesting!!!! thks for uploading.

please give us more , thank you

EXTREMELY GOOD!!! PERSPECTIVE IN ITS PUREST FORM! 😍🤔

Prof Ngugi

I love this man's literary work.

H's the Best East African Novelist,my favourite one Thiong'o's son.

am proud of Africa language

Great thinker

Ngugi you are genius !!

one of earth's great minds.

Greatest professor. Good speech

we need to connect with our language

I have read his books and am convinced he is a man of people. within him lies patriotism

Salute 👏

This is why we need to get rid of all those European names in African spaces; place names like Johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria, Lagos, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire. Names of landmarks; Lake Edward, Victoria Falls, Lake Albert etc and the personal names like John, Peter, Sunday, Peace etc.

Show me kindly the major elements.

He forgot to tell the audience how kamirithu moving theatre was burged down as part of erasing his memory

The french killed more than 400 000 people in Cameroon alone, even though it was not a settler type colony. Anyway, good talk.

Cc

we need to connect with our language