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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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Those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow […] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes
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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?
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The Bible affects everybody’s life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia.
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Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices
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Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa’s souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind?
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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So we’re talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people’s lives in history.
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What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.
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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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Christianity Civilisation Committed Country Crime Name Western
So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.
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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it.
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