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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.

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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Always Awake Control Ordinary Particularly People Repressive Think Uncomfortable
There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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Find Nation Nom Way Survive Unity World
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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Continent Country Down Envisaged Gradually Ideal Nation Pan Problem Region Similar Size Wholeness
What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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English Into Power Quantity Question Translate
Of course it’s very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means – one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration – is difficult.
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Come Country Course Feel From Image Important
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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Being Bible Ciuntrym Integral Function Look Read Thousand Translation Way World
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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Butterfield Confirm Continuous Determine Force Fought Live Pledge
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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Country Culture Language Phenomenon Power Problem Relationship
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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Bible Country Effect Original Raed Translation
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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Art Audience Beyond Could Country Language Practical Reach Revelation Sense Still Write
A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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Access Acquire English Language Make Person Possible Thing
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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Away Continent Corner Country Million Soul Wind
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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Being Country Even Keep Language Prison Put Say Write
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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Christianity Civilisation Committed Country Crime Name Western
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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Asia Bible Christian Claas Country Effect Everybody Middle Peasant
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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Jesus Know Language Many People Speak

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