Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
NGUGI WA THIONG'OSeen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices
More Ngugi wa Thiong'o Quotes
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So we’re talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people’s lives in history.
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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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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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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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Those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow […] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes
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A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
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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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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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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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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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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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What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices
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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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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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