Read the following selection from the section "Forging Identity."
Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, then a
student, believed the restoration of
cultural memory depended on writing
in mother tongues. Ngugi argued that
without this "decolonization of the
mind" African writers would forever
live by moral, ethical and aesthetic
values not their own.
What is the meaning of the phrase
decolonization of the mind"?