Audio By Vocalize The late Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o. [FILE] The late literary luminary Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o, in a televised interview, once asserted that one who abandons their mother tongue in favour of a foreign language is, in essence, a slave.Language, he argued, is not merely a tool of communication but the vessel of thought, imagination, and cultural memory. To forsake one’s first language is to sever the roots that nourish identity, to inhabit a world filtered through foreign eyes. In contrast, one who embraces their mother tongue while learning foreign languages stands empowered, capable of navigating multiple worlds…