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"I very much like the African American writers. I discovered them at Makerere University (in Uganda), and Caribbean writers like George Lamming were very important to me. The writers of the Harlem Renaissance fired my imagination and made me feel I could be a writer, too. ... At the Makerere conference (the African Writers Conference, in 1962), I met with Langston Hughes, and oh my God it was so great!. Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance! To shake hands with a world famous writer was very very important to me." He then again hit out at the school's governing board, saying it has become insular and that there is no mechanism to remove members the way there is in corporate America where investors can run board challenges. Ng~ug~i has been praised by critics and writers worldwide, and imprisoned, Online Homework Help 5th Grade Teacher beaten, banned and otherwise threatened in his native country. Since the 1970s, he has mostly lived overseas, emigrating to England and eventually settling in California, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He has since also called out Trump's plans to remove the school's tax-exempt status, which he told the Wall Street Journal is 'granted to educational institutions to enable them to successfully carry out their mission of education and, for research universities, of research. "I am fine (with speaking English). After all, I am a distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, in Irvine. So it's not that I mind English, but I don't want it to be my primary language, OK? This is how I put it: For me, and for everybody, if you know all the languages of the world, and you don't know your mother tongue, that's enslavement, mental enslavement. But if you know your mother tongue, and add other languages, that is empowerment." He has since asked the Internal Revenue Service to remove the school's tax-exempt status, and on Monday, Trump's Department of Education announced it was freezing even more funding for future research grants and other aid until Harvard concedes to a number of demands from the Trump administration. For these grants to be re-issued, a senior Education Department official said Harvard 'would have to enter into a negotiation with the government to satisfy what the government says is in compliance with all federal laws.' "In Kenya, even today, we have children and their parents who cannot speak their mother tongues, or the parents know their mother tongues and don't want their children to know their mother tongue. They are very happy when they speak English and even happier when their children don't know their mother tongue. That's why I call it mental colonization." His remarks came shortly after Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to Harvard President Garber saying that 'Harvard is not eligible for any new grants from the federal government until they demonstrate responsible management at the university.' 'They have become monolithically leftist and that DEI ideology connects to the anti-Semitism problem because they're teaching young people to make snap judgments about each other based on identity and skin color,' the senior official said.