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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

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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What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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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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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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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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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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They want to be the ones telling people: “This is what we have done in history” but when people begin to say, “No this is what we have done in history” it’s a different thing.
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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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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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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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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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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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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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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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