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We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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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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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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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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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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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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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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What’s good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.
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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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The same questions are there in Native American languages, they’re there in native Canadian languages, they’re there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish.
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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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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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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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