![]() ![]() They yearn for their lost identity and the lost African heritage. Little wonder, therefore that the negritude poets try to achieve disalienation through identification with Africa, African values and African origins. Their manhood was finished in the classrooms, their testicles were smashed with big books." (P´Bitek: 1985: 117) In Decolonizing the Mind, Ngugi observes that the lack of congruency between colonial education and Africa´s reality created people abstracted from their reality. In Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot P´Bitek laments a situation in which colonial education emasculates the emerging African elite: "my husband´s house is a dark forest of books. In Charles Mungoshi´s Waiting for the Rain, Lucifer similarly feels alienated from his homeland because of his colonial education. ![]() Colonial education taught Medza everything that is irrelevant to his African life. ![]()
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