Final answer:
In "Something Torn and New," Ngugi describes the Irish as the "first English colony" to illustrate White-on-White dismemberment, setting a precedent for later English colonialism in places like Kenya.
Step-by-step explanation:
In chapter one of "Something Torn and New," Ngugi describes the Irish as the "first English colony" and uses it as an example of White-on-White dismemberment. The process of colonizing Ireland served as a precursor to England's later colonial endeavors, where the English suppressed Irish culture and language, imposed English norms, and created a social hierarchy privileging English settlers over the native Irish.
This internal colonization by the English set the stage for later colonial attitudes and practices in other parts of the world, like Africa, where local populations were similarly dispossessed and their cultures dismembered, as seen in the example of British colonization in Kenya.
The attempts at civilizing through the lens of European superiority, as suggested in Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden," and the exploitative practices in colonies, illustrated in the treatment of the Kikuyu by British settlers, are reflections of this historical parallel.