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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?

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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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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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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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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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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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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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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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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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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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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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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Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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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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Always Awake Control Ordinary Particularly People Repressive Think Uncomfortable
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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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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