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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.
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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 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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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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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it.
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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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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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