Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O
NGUGI WA THIONG'O
Ngugi wa Thiong'o on jesus
Ngugi wa Thiong'o41 quotes“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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Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o 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'oNgugi wa Thiong'o 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.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa’s souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind?
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o 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.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o The Bible in translation is being read to thousands and thousands in Africa. It is an integral part of their functioning and the way they look at the world.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o 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.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o 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?
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o 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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