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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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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.
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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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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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We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
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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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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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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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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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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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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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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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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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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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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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In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship – between languages and communities – because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.
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