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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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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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Those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow […] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes
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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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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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We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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