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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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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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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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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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You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English.
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In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship – between languages and communities – because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.
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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission.
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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good or illuminating, then that work is translated into the language of another community.
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Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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Then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.
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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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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language.
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