Ngugi's Text and my Understanding of TFA

In the extract form 'Decolonizing the Mind' by Nguigi wa Thinong'o there were various content and themes which enriched my understanding and appreciation of Things Fall Apart. In the text, Ngugi reiterated the fact that African culture value words for their meaning and nuances. Additionally, he related to how one's aboriginal language had to be transformed into English language due to the colonizers. 
From this contextual information, we can glean that the emphasis on proverbs and spoken forms of language in Things Fall Apart was a factual piece of information. Achebe's utilization of certain stylistic features and language is now more explicitly understandable after the interaction with the text as now, I have the knowledge of how the colonizers' effect on language have affected the African tribesmen. 

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