Video: Decolonizing the mind with Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Title: “Decolonizing the mind”, 13 min

Starring: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Maëline Le Lay

Date: 2019

Languages: English with French subtitles

Production: Masegor in association with SCAC

Directors: Gilbert Nyangor and Maëline Le Lay

Support: French Embassy in Kenya and IFRA - Nairobi

This interview is part of a larger project of seminars to be held between Goma and Nairobi in 2019. It focuses on intellectuals from Africa and the diaspora who criticise the ways of thinking and studying Africa. After a first session bringing together scholars in Goma in June, Ngugi wa Thiong'o explains his thoughts on the decolonization of knowledge and the promotion of an "African thinking" on Africa.