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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.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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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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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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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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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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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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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
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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Amidst Beautiful Blood Life Pain Poverty Struggle
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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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
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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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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Act Cide English Known Legal Operate Person System Trasnlotyion
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
We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
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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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Become Classroom Conference Country Discussion Issue Language Longer No School Topic Write
There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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