🗓️ Date: 21st June 2025
🕖 Time: 19:00 Berlin | 20:00 Nairobi
📍 Zoom ID: 786 457 5470
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“The most important thing about language is that it is a carrier of culture.” ~ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
On Saturday, 21st June 2025, we will gather across continents, time zones, and traditions to honor the life and legacy of a towering revolutionary: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
This International Remembrance Day is more than an event; it is a collective moment of reflection, ancestral connection, and intellectual reawakening. Ngũgĩ was not merely a writer, academic, or theorist. He was a fierce defender of African languages, memory, dignity, and liberation. With his pen, he challenged empire, resisted erasure through the Kiswahili and Kikuyu words, and provided us with tools to confront the violence of cultural imperialism.
🖤 Why We Remember
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o taught us that to decolonize the mind is to reclaim the soul of our people. He dismantled the imposed hierarchies of colonial languages and reclaimed storytelling as an act of resistance. His work gave voice to the silenced, power to the marginalized, and hope to generations of African and diasporic people dreaming of freedom on their terms.
This remembrance is about more than looking back; it is about carrying forward.
It is about remembering as a political act.
It is about mourning as a strategy of resistance.
It is about language as a tool of liberation.
📜 What to Expect
The evening will bring together community voices, artists, scholars, elders, and youth to honor Ngũgĩ through:
✨ Spoken word and poetry
✨ Ancestral rituals and memory offerings
✨ Musical tributes and indigenous expression
✨ Reflections from those moved by his work
✨ Intergenerational storytelling
We gather not as passive observers, but as active custodians of his vision to decolonize knowledge, language, education, and imagination.
