<translate> In his book Decolonising the Mind: The Language of African Literature, Ngugi wa Thiongo talks about the fact that language is an important tool, both for the coloniser and for the colonised. With the former wielding the weapon and the latter being the object, language is used as a cultural bomb, the effect of which is to: <swh>Katika kitabu chake Decolonising the Mind: The Language of African Literature, Ngugi wa Thiongo anazungumzia ukweli kwamba lugha ni nyenzo muhimu, kwa mkoloni na kwa wenyeji. Mkoloni akiitumia kama silaha huku wenyeji wakiwa chombo, lugha inatumika kama bomu la kitamaduni, ambayo athari yake ni: 