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  NEW YORK (AP) - At age 87, Kenyan author Ng~ug~i wa Thiong'o hopes he can summon the
  strength for at least one more book.
  
  He would call it "Normalized Abnormality," about the lasting scars
  of colonialism, whether in Africa, Europe or North America, that are widely accepted today.
  
  
  "I will write it if I have the energy," Ng~ug~i, who has struggled with kidney problems in recent years, said during a
  telephone interview.
  
  One of the world's most revered writers and a perennial candidate for
  the Nobel Prize, Ng~ug~i remains an energetic speaker with opinions no less forceful than they have
  been for the past 60 years. Since emerging as a leading voice of post-colonial Africa, he has been calling
  for Africans to reclaim their language and culture and
  denouncing the tyranny of Kenya's leaders.
  His best known books include the nonfiction "Decolonizing the Mind"
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  that he wrote in his native Gik~uy~u.
  
  Ng~ug~i has been praised by critics and writers worldwide,
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  threatened in his native country. Since the 1970s,
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  "I miss Kenya, because they gave me everything," he says.
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  Ng~ug~i has published a handful of books
  over the past decade, including the novel "The Perfect Nine" and the prison memoir "Wrestling with the Devil," and was otherwise in the news in 2022 when his son, M~ukoma
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  His U.S. publisher, The New Press, has just released
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  point for modern African literature. Achebe also helped launch
  Ng~ug~i's career by showing a manuscript of an early novel, "Weep Not, Child,"
  to publisher William Heinemann, who featured it in the landmark African Writers series.
  
  
  In one essay from "Decolonizing Language," Ng~ug~i declares that writers must "be the voice of the voiceless. They have to give voice to silence, especially the silence imposed on a people by an oppressive state." During his AP interview, Ng~ug~i discussed his concerns about Kenya, the "empowerment" of knowing your native language, his literary influences and
  his mixed feelings about the United States. Ng~ug~i's comments on subjects have
  been condensed for clarity and brevity.
  
  "In Kenya, even today, we have children and their parents who cannot speak their mother tongues, or the parents know their mother tongues and don't want their children to know their mother tongue. They are very happy when they speak English and even happier when their children don't know their mother tongue. That's why I call it mental colonization."
  
  "I am fine (with speaking English). After all, I am a distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, in Irvine. So it's not that I mind English, but I don't want it to be my primary language, OK? This is how I put it: For me, and for everybody, if you know all the languages of the world, and you don't know your mother tongue, that's enslavement, mental enslavement. But if you know your mother tongue, and add other languages, that is empowerment."
  
  "I very much like the African American writers. I discovered them at Makerere University (in Uganda), and Caribbean writers like George Lamming were very important to me. The writers of the Harlem Renaissance fired my imagination and made me feel I could be a writer, too. ... At the Makerere conference (the African Writers Conference, in 1962), I met with Langston Hughes, and oh my God it was so great!. Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance! To shake hands with a world famous writer was very very important to me."
  
  "On the one hand, I am grateful to be here and to have a job at a California university, as a distinguished professor. I appreciate that. But I was coming from a country which was a white seller colony, and I can't forget that when I'm here. People don't even talk about it here. They talk about it as if it were normal. So we talk about the American Revolution. But is it not Native Americans who were colonized? So I am very fascinated by this normalized abnormality."
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