Decolonising the Mind is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. The book, which advocates for linguistic decolonization, is one of Ngũgĩ’s best-known and most-cited non-fiction publications, helping to cement him as a pre-eminent voice theorizing the “language debate” in post-colonial studies.

Ngũgĩ describes the book as “a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism, and in teaching of literature…” Decolonising the Mind is split into four essays: “The Language of African Literature,” “The Language of African Theatre,” “The Language of African Fiction,” and “The Quest for Relevance.”

心灵的非殖民化》是一部关于语言及其在民族文化、历史和身份认同中的建设性作用的论文集。该书倡导语言的非殖民化，是Ngũgĩ最著名和被引用最多的非小说出版物之一，帮助他成为后殖民研究中 "语言辩论 "理论化的杰出声音。

ũgĩ将该书描述为 "对我过去20年在小说、戏剧、批评和文学教学实践中所热衷的一些问题的总结..." 心灵的非殖民化》分为四篇文章："非洲文学的语言"、"非洲戏剧的语言"、"非洲小说的语言 "和 "对相关性的追求"。