If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
NGUGI WA THIONG'OWe can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
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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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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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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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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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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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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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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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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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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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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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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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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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Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?
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