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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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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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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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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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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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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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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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We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
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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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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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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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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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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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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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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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