Abstract
onversations with Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on Memory, Language, and Liberation is a penetrating and consequential engagement with one of Africa’s most formidable literary and political minds. Through rigorous and intimate dialogue, Professor Peter Ndiang’ui captures Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s reflections on memory as a site of historical truth, language as an instrument of domination and resistance, and liberation as an enduring moral and political obligation.
Grounded in the interwoven themes of memory, language, and liberation, the book confronts the legacies of colonialism, cultural erasure, and state repression. From the struggle for linguistic sovereignty to experiences of imprisonment, exile, and return, these conversations illuminate the intellectual discipline, ethical clarity, and uncompromising vision that define Ngũgĩ’s lifelong commitment to freedom. Bridging scholarship and testimony, the volume affirms storytelling as an act of resistance and remembrance as a foundation for liberation.