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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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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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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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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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Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices
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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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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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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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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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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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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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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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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 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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They want to be the ones telling people: “This is what we have done in history” but when people begin to say, “No this is what we have done in history” it’s a different thing.
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