Talked | Socialist Action 1983

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the upsurge of West Indian radicalism to Utlu. the Second War, ana of the independence struggles in Asia Africa.

Each these movements created writers and 'sharpened the sensitivities of the old' The speakers DO C BIlS contention out. Ngugi Wa I mong o was shaped by the Mau Mau 50's, "Emergency' and his novels and plays feature the struggles of the peasantry and workers Kenya.

His attempts to involve the working people in As with many COltributors she talked of the way contemporary culture shapes the images the op.

have of themselves.

Farrukh Dhondy also spoke of the impenals anece distorted the truth of Third World eveRls. The ECCe N massacres in Assam were blamed by the ucudul the barbarity of the local peoples rather than being seen the COLSC quence of enforced migration under British colonial barbarism.

As all the speakers at the forum showed writers of the Third World have a special part to play in assaulting oppressed of their history of struggle.

It was CLR James who said the parallels of today