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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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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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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission.
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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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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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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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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened – particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over the world feel uncomfortable about that; they want to be in control.
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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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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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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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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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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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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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What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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