Author professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o during an interview with the Standard on 7/2/19. [File, Standard] As we honour the towering legacy of Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o — his radical defence of African languages and his defiant challenge to colonial cultural domination — we must recognise that this struggle is not merely political or academic. For many of us, it is deeply personal. When I once shared my story with Ngugi, he listened like someone who had carried the same burdens. He fully understood my struggle. At the end, he simply said, “Never give up the fight.” Those words have never…