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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

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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Act Cide English Known Legal Operate Person System Trasnlotyion
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
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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Arrive Away Best Broken Future Known Leader Price
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
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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Begin Different Done History One People Say Tell 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
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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Country Culture Global Language Power Problem
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
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
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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Amidst Beautiful Blood Life Pain Poverty Struggle
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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Certain Character Community Good Illuminating Language Novel Particularly Story Written
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
We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
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Appreciate Being Language Other Question Uncomfortable Way
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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Another Fiction Good Novel People Problem Problem Region Similar Writing
Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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Area Like Location Work Writer
Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing – and that’s the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It’s completely unacceptable.
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Another Phenomena Cleansing Country Cover People Sad Some Use Very

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