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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?

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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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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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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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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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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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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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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 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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We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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