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The Bible in translation is being read to thousands and thousands in Africa. It is an integral part of their functioning and the way they look at the world.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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Find Nation Nom Way Survive Unity World
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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Country Dominant English Gradually Language Term
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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Country English Language Periostin Power Serious Wonder Work
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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Bible Country Effect Original Raed Translation
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: “Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison.”
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Being Country Even Keep Language Prison Put Say Write
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.
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Art Audience Beyond Could Country Language Practical Reach Revelation Sense Still Write
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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Began Character Describe Group Language Problem
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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Affect Being Bible History Itself Live Reality Talk Translation
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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Another Country Language Many Only Operate Person
Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing – and that’s the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It’s completely unacceptable.
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Another Phenomena Cleansing Country Cover People Sad Some Use Very
Of course it’s very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means – one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration – is difficult.
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Come Country Course Feel From Image Important
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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Breaking Committee Down Eye Light Mould Open Protective Pull Seek Strive Tomorrow Up Wish
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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Act Break Community Confinement Linguistic Many Other Out Raech Translate
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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Jesus Know Language Many People Speak
Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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Area Like Location Work Writer
And even in terms of justice, law codes, the legal system. A person who does not know English in Africa is excluded from that system because he can only operate through acts of translation.
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Act Cide English Known Legal Operate Person System Trasnlotyion

The Bible in translation is being read to thousands and thousands in Africa. It is an integral part of their functioning and the way they look at the world.

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