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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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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
You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English.
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Another Country Language Many Only Operate Person
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
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
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
If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can’t buy it.
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Buy Cent Poverty Sold Three Today
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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Amidst Beautiful Blood Life Pain Poverty Struggle
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
Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
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Area Like Location Work Writer
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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Act Break Community Confinement Linguistic Many Other Out Raech Translate
I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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Country Irvine People People Person Write
I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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Connect Listen Meaningful More People Try
Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices
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Continue Cultural Economic Member Political Practice Psychological Seen
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
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
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

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