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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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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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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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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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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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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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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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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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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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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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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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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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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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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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What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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