'In a recent interview, the great Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who made a choice to write in Kikuyu, his mother tongue, explained: “I’m not against English, but I’m against the hierarchy of languages . . . The struggle for languages is the struggle for the recovery of the soul of Africa.”

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