In chapter three of Ngugi’s Decolonising the mind, the essay tells us about Ngugi growing up in Kenya. He spoke Gikuyu in and out of his home, he worked in a field with children who would re-tell a story to the children who worked in the fields the stories main character was animals. The paragraph finishes by telling the reader about how theirs a good and bad story a good story tells the same story over and over, the bad story uses different tones and voices. Ngugi went to a colonial school where his education was no longer apart of his culture, The school he attended was taken over by the colonial regime and were placed under district education boards chaired by englishman. In Kenya, English became a formal language, If you were caught speaking …show more content…
Chapter three is ending by explaining to the readers how everyone in Kenya had to learn english, In the essay speaking or knowing english would show other that you or intelligent. Ngugi went to Makerere University which is a university where everyone had to get a graduates degrees, Ngugi explains how learning english taught him how to find who he really is and how smart he really is. Chapter for talks about how english is a communication that everyone uses such as Britain and Sweden, there are three aspects for communication of using english. First aspect is how Karl Max called the language of real life you use the language of real life to communicate with others so you can develop a relationship. Second aspect is speech and it imitates the language of real life, this explains how the verbal signposts both reflect and aid communication and the relationship between humans. The third aspect is how we signal language, the third aspect tells us how we can communicate by written or sign language. Ngugi describes language as the carrier of culture, in the next paragraph it tells us about how culture is a product of the history which it turns into