Freeing the Imagination: George Lamming’s aesthetics of decolonization

Through a series of provocative works, including In the Castle of My Skin, Of Age and Innocence, Pleasures of Exile, and Season of Adventure, George Lamming managed to do for the literature of decolonization what Plato did for Western philosophy. Kenyan author and philosopher Nguũgiĩ wa Thiong’o explains.