ALI GUNES

  The “Cultural Bomb”: The Colonisation of the African Mind and Linguistic and Cultural Imperialism Ali Gunes gunesali1@gmail.com   A week ago, I had a fierce argument with a friend of mine who asserted passionately that, despite contrary views, colonialism helped, in certain ways, colonised countries, mainly in Africa, improve and modernise their technological infrastructure and educational systems. In fact, what he claimed was obviously an orientalist view that contends that the West, with its technological, scientific, civilisational, and educational superiority, helped enlighten and civilise the rest of the world (the East and Colonised countries), which was considered uneducated, backwards, uncivilised, and underdeveloped, etc. Thus, I strongly opposed my friend’s views. Since I have been studying and writing about colonial and postcolonial literature for a while, I am pretty cognizant of how colonisers acted and what did in different parts of the world in the past and no...