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How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go?

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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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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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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I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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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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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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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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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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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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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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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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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised – so it’s no longer “in the closet,” as it were. It’s part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature.
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We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
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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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