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    "id": 1569178,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1569178/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to eulogise Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who was a great African literary writer. In his works, he displayed how one can communicate language, culture and traditionalism through the African art of words. Through his book, the Black Hermit, he showed how the African traditional way of life met modernity. This is how he explained colonialism and racism. He also showed how Europeans colonised Africans in his book, Decolonising theMind . One of the things he taught which should be emphasised, is that we need to have a lot of respect for our cultures, traditions and language. Today, at the United Nations (UN) the medium of communication is English, Arabic, French and other languages. African languages have not yet been recognised. It is important, as Africa that our languages, traditions and even the way we work should be ingrained in our school set-up. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I eulogise for we have lost a great literary giant."
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