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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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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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We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
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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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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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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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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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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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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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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy 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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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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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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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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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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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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