Ngugi’s decolonization argument contradicts the benefit Said derives from it

Evidence

The Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thongo is then invoked to make the point that this global circulation of English enables us to ‘decolonize’ our minds through study in the same language that was used to colonize us. This too is somewhat surprising, both because Ngugi has over the last several years made the point that in order fully to decolonize his mind he must, rather, write in Kikuyu, and because this beneficent role of English as vehicle of enlightenment and world culture is at the very least overstated. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 893