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Ngugi wa Thiong’o, UCI Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, has been awarded the 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, about language and its constructive role in national culture, history and identity. The collection of essays advocates for linguistic decolonization and is one […]

Scholarly reach and public impact of highly utilized humanities resource are expanded

UCI professor uses linguistics, DNA to help long-isolated Colombian community descended from escaped slaves find its roots

Concert highlighting African American composers will cap conference for college conductors, kick off Black History Month