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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?

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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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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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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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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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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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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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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