Verdict: carrot
The West was founded on the slaughter of millions of people of colour, from the genocide of Native Americans in the US to Europe’s various acts of butchery and repression in Algeria, Kenya, the Congo and elsewhere in Africa. For Ngugi, the horror of such violence is made all the more bitter by being dressed up in narratives of progress and enlightenment. “The fact is, for the last 400 years, Europe and the West have been Africa’s hell, with Africa a European heaven,” writes Ngugi. The West has always insisted that the opposite is true. Secure the Base aims to make visible the real state of affairs.
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- Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
EAN: 9780857423139
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