In his 1986 text “Decolonizing The Mind”, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o explains how European conquest disrupted Africa in physical, cultural, and psychological ways. Land theft, slavery, and the drawing of colonial borders displaced African communities and reshaped the continent. The removal of names, languages, and cultural memory separated people from their histories and identities. Through his discussions of leaders such as Waiyaki and Hintsa, along with his analysis of naming practices, schooling, religion, and language, Ngũgĩ shows how colonial rule implanted European memory in place of African memory. This process raised generations who learned to see themselves through foreign ideas, and it began a long effort to recover a sense of wholeness.