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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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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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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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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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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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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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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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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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